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...President put on the pressure. This week, in a hectic night session, the Southern operators suddenly caved in, agreed to a $1 per day wage boost. The South had returned to the union...
...other steelmen were much less philosophical over losing their hoped-for price boost. Asked one "spokesman": "How can the industry be expected to increase wages 50% as it has since 1929 and then be permitted to have an increase of but 2% in average steel prices in the same period?" But New York Times Columnist C. F. Hughes pointed out that despite the increased hourly rates the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a decline of 2.6% in the unit labor cost of steel between 1929 and 1939. Furthermore, other Government figures covering part of the period since then show...
...more lines to its present five, increase its service from 108 pickups to 345. Simultaneously, other applications have poured into Civil Aeronautics Board from nine other companies, to reach 1,231 more communities in some 25 States from New England to Texas and Minnesota. All ten, if granted, would boost airmail lines from 39,000 to 64,000 miles...
...boost pig-iron capacity 10% by building new furnaces would take at least a year, cost an estimated...
...Ottawa Agreements of 1932 giving preferential tariff treatment (to Dominion exporters) gave H. R. MacMillan Export Co. a big boost. So naturally Lumberman MacMillan is as loyal to the Empire as to Canada. As the head of Canada's shipbuilding program, he may well have one of the Empire's most important posts...