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...expansion of its own production, plus gas it will buy, will boost El Paso's daily capacity to 2.2 billion cu. ft., putting it ahead of Tennessee Gas Transmission as the biggest U.S. gas pipeline company...
...money market as tight as his credit-pinching had created. Humphrey might have had to boost interest rates even more to raise such huge amounts. The credit expansion would not only create almost the identical amount banks may need to finance new-money bond issues; the prospect also stiffened the prices of both Government and corporate bonds. The Government's 2½% bonds rose a full point, and Humphrey's new 3¼% bonds rose to par for the first time in six weeks...
...producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent producers, finding it hard to raise money in the U.S., have stretched their dollars further abroad. And such unions as Roy Brewer's Film Council (TIME, April 27) have helped boost film costs skyhigh; labor costs overseas are anywhere from 20% to 50% below the U.S., and foreign sets and props are far cheaper...
Prices, which have been relatively stable for months, last week started to climb again. Steelmakers, as expected, raised their prices about $4 a ton to pay for their latest wage boost. Their biggest customers, the automakers, said they would absorb the increase. But General Electric announced that it would boost the prices of many of its appliances, and others were thinking of following suit...
...Carter Oil, a Jersey Standard subsidiary: "Costs of labor, materials and services have risen substantially, and an adjustment has been long overdue." The adjustment will mean higher home-heating costs next winter. Gasoline prices have already been raised in many states, and last week Standard of Ohio announced a boost of 1½? per gallon, the biggest...