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...plant in Smyrna, Del. (pop. 2,346), Farm Fertilizer Manufacturer Warner W. Price, Jr. decided to speak his piece to the Interstate Commerce Commission about the proposed 22% boost in railroad freight rates. Price got off a letter to the ICC opposing the increase, but he soon found that to get the ICC's full attention he would have to spread out letters like a farmer covering the north 40 with Price products. The ICC wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested...
...FARE BOOST of 5% will go into effect on all North Atlantic flights beginning May 1, if U.S. and West European governments approve. Transatlantic lines want fare increase to offset salary hikes, higher fuel costs due to Suez crisis...
STEEL PRICES will go up again at midyear, when steelworkers get their annual raise under three-year contract. Estimates are for boost of $5 to $6 a ton; increase will be less if production stays low (currently 92% of capacity), more if auto-buying picks up sharply later in spring...
...lack experience, are often unable to keep up with the office work load. Ten years ago a beginner took at least 120 words per minute in shorthand, did 60 in -typing; today, she often takes only about 80 words per minute in shorthand, types 45. Secretarial schools cannot 'boost the standards; company raiders leave them with classrooms half empty long before graduation. Says one Atlanta school director: "Businessmen can't spell themselves, and rarely ever finish a thought. They rely on these so-called secretaries, and are horror-struck when they, discover that the blind are leading...
...Neath, chairman of Humble Oil & Refining Co., which had strongly urged a big boost in production all through the Suez crisis, now agreed with the commission that the latest increase may have been a mistake. To fill one April order of 2,900,000 bbl. of crude for Europe, Humble has found 2,500,000 bbl. readily available. In Washington, where the Administration had criticized the oil industry for supposedly failing to supply Europe with enough oil, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser told the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee that U.S. oil lifters had supplied more than...