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Just in time to brighten the holiday season, Canadian servicemen got their first pay raise in two years, an average 9% boost that will make Canada's lowliest enlisted men and its top brass the highest-priced fighting men of their rank in the world. Base pay for the Canadian recruit will jump from $87 to $92 a month. The U.S. buck private draws only...
...perceptible slump in many fall and winter lines." Montgomery Ward's sales were down 15.5%. In New York, where a six-day, eye-burning "smaze"* added to the buying apathy, the fur business was down 20%; oil companies cut prices of heating oils by ½? a gallon to boost lagging sales. Anthracite men noted sadly that their sales so far this year were down by about...
...Council, tentatively organized a year ago, received a legal boost last week when federal courts decided through test cases that such contributions were legal...
Dwight Eisenhower had hardly taken office ten months ago when he faced the first test of his "trade not aid" policy. On his desk was a recommendation from the Tariff Commission that he boost the import duty on low-priced brier pipes. Eisenhower, wanting more time and information, sent the recommendation back to the commission for further study. Last week he turned down the proposal...
Unemployed workers may get a boost in unemployment benefits. Unions are complaining that current rates, from $3 to $33 a week, are too low, and the Department of Labor is surveying the problem...