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...Minister of National Economy and Finance promptly got the Cabinet to approve an increase in wages and a boost in the price of bread...
...case. On every dollar of sales in the packing industry in 1944, he said, packers had made a net profit of 1.05?, which was well above their profits of .96? per dollar of sales in the years 1925-39. Thus, there was no reason to suppose that a boost in profits by a boost in price ceilings would mean more meat on U.S. dinner tables. The chief cause of the meat shortage, said he, was less the price squeeze than bad distribution. This is due chiefly to the Federal Government's system of buying meat for the armed forces...
...agreed to sit down with the packers and see if a plan could be worked out to get more beef. But as long as the demands of civilians and the armed forces remain what they are, no one expected that much could be done to boost the available meat supply...
...hapless Adams quintet went down to its seventh straight defeat yesterday at the hands of the NROTC Company 3A, 43 to 25, sinking still lower into last place. Also trounced 41 to 35, the Gold Coasters gave another boost towards the championship to a high riding Standish Freshman five led by Dick Firth, who netted 15 points. In this marathon, the score was tied at the end of the regulation time and it took two overtimes before the affair was finally settled...
...winning a 53 to 20 victory over Company A Wednesday, and overturning Company C, 28 to 22, yesterday, the NROTC Company 3B edged up to but a half game out of first place. Company C's loss coupled with an idle Bellboy squad served to boost Lowell into a tie for the bottom slot in the first division with a three and three rating...