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...Boost teacher salaries, build more roads, increase old-age benefits, extend already liberal state services...
Significant Boost. Between speeches, Adenauer flew to Washington for "a full exchange of views" with Secretary Dulles in the map room of the State Department. He came out reassured and relieved that the U.S. still seeks the reunification of Germany within the free world "by means of free elections." Adenauer and Dulles formally agreed: "Until the Soviet government puts an end to the brutal and unnatural division which it has imposed on Germany, it will be difficult to place credence in the promises and pledges of the Soviet gevernment." An aide reflected his chief's delight at this significant...
...outlook is the steel industry. In Manhattan, the Steelworkers angrily rejected industry proposals for a five-year contract, dismissed as "picayune" the companies' offer of an annual 6tf hourly raise and other benefits (including premium pay for Sunday work, starting in 1959), which the companies said would boost labor costs 65? an hour in five years. Snorted Steelworkers' President David McDonald: "The titans of industry have labored and brought forth a louse." But most steelmen remained hopeful that a contract would be signed by the July 1 deadline...
FIRST ATOMIC-POWER reactor under President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan has been ordered from Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. by the Dominican Republic. The deal, contingent on a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and General Trujillo, will boost power-hungry Ciudad Trujillo's electrical output...
Actually, few realistic Britons look for any big, immediate boost in Red trade. Though China was once a big market, trade slumped last year to a bare $22.3 million worth of exports, and the Communists have offered little so far either in barter or cash. When a Red delegation arrived in London in 1954, all it had to trade was benzoated (preserved) egg yolks, leopard skins and human hair while demanding locomotives, steel and heavy vehicles. As for cash, Red China's sterling balance is only some $280 million, a figure which would be quickly liquidated by shipments...