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...House voted overwhelming approval (379 to 38) of a $300 million-a-year pay boost to the nation's 525,000 postal workers, showed that it has enough votes to override a potential presidential veto. Waiting in the wings: other bills already approved by both Senate and House committees to raise the pay of approximately 1,000,000 civil servants in other branches of the Federal Government...
...promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells: 2.6 billion bbl.) Frenchmen sitting in Cafés du Commerce all over France, hoping that this wealth might cure France's chronic foreign-trade deficit and boost capital investment in North Africa, called it the "Miracle of the Sahara...
...only 120 seconds, but maintenance and operating costs keep going up. "A spare part that used to cost maybe 80^," explains one airline man, "runs about $5 now, and has to be specially made." Even if the feeders, which operate with an average load factor of 45%, could boost their loads to the big trunklines' average of 65%, the DC-3 would still lose money. The revenues would equal only 87.5^ a mile v. a cost of about $1 a mile...
...short-haul routes. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., building the F-27 under license, already has 69 firm orders or options from U.S. lines. Flying without subsidy, the F-27 is expected to break even on a load factor of 57%. Better routing, with Civil Aeronautics Board help, could then boost feeder traffic, although many lines will still need subsidies for years to come. Even so, few feeders can raise the cash to buy the Fokker. Of 35 firm F-27 orders, says Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President G. Robert Henry, only nine have been completely financed. Fairchild...
Under the escalator clause of the price-support law, supports move up or down according to total supply, as well as according to changes in the general price level. Now that the export program has cut the carryover, Secretary Benson will probably have to boost price supports for the current 1957 crop well beyond the 28.15? per Ib. price he set last February. The net effect, as Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse wrote the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a fortnight ago, will be to encourage farmers to produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher...