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...several times before, sought to pin some of the blame for low farm prices on the meat packing industry. Said he, at a San Francisco gathering of the Western States Meat Packers Association: "Last August the packing industry granted wage increases equal to roughly a $50 million annual boost. Who paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that in the fourth quarter of last year the average farm price of choice beef...
NUCLEAR POWER for the British Commonwealth will get a boost from U.S. industry. In the first commercial Anglo-American atomic project, American Machine & Foundry Co. and Britain's Mitchell Engineering, Ltd. have agreed to build a series of nuclear power plants in underdeveloped Commonwealth areas...
TEXTILES WORKERS will make their first bid for a wage boost since 1950. After holding the line (and even taking a 6½% wage cut in 1952) in the depressed industry, the Textile Workers Union is sending notices to employers that it will seek "substantial" wage and fringe benefits increases...
...Steel has two small Minnesota taconite plants at Mountain Iron and Virginia, Minn, that ship 500,000 tons yearly, is planning a huge new plant near by to boost annual production to more than 10 million tons...
...varsity hockey team's chances of receiving a return invitation to the NCAA championships in Colorado got a substantial boost from Saturday's victory over Boston College. Coach Cooney Weiland remarked yesterday that if the Crimson wins its four remaining games, "I don't see how they can overlook...