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...basic news. The Trib, though not directly involved in the strike, actually had as much to lose as any of the struck papers from a settlement favorable to the strikers. Since the Trib is already hard-pressed by spiraling costs, it could ill afford another pacesetting boost. Thus the Trib hoped to encourage the other publishers-especially the affluent Times-to hold the line against the union, not only by refusing to run more ads itself and thereby capitalize on the strike, but by killing those already scheduled. Next day, the Trib carried its effort a step further...
...publishers offered all seven unions a $3.75 a week package covering wages, welfare benefits, extra holidays and reduced hours. Currently, photoengraver salaries run from $120 to $131 a week. Phblishers claim that some photoengravers get enough overtime pay to boost their salaries to close to $190 weekly...
SLUM housing may get a boost next year from the $26 billion savings and loan business. The U.S. Savings and Loan League, comprised of 4,100 state and federally chartered savings associations and cooperative banks, wants Congress to pass a law authorizing federally chartered institutions to buy cleared slum land, put up low-cost housing...
...said he. "My car insurance came due. That's $120. The taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked for an average hourly increase of 26?, plus other benefits), jumping his hourly wage to $1.97. Said Gramm: "That's as much as anybody in this area is making. Maybe it ain't like...
...wind and the atom (see chart). While petroleum consumption "is certain to rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact...