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With the Churchill government's acceptance of the report, the union happily collected raises ranging from 70? to $1.12 a week for 60,000 workers in the lowest brackets, and a promise of other raises later. The boost will cost the Transport Commission an extra $22 million a year which it has not got−since 1948 the railways have already run up a $76 million deficit. Gone was the notion that the railways must pay for themselves. "How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson...
...find may well boost interest in the very great Renaissance painter who had all but dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate...
Said a top Federal Reserve Board official last week: "We thought we had an obligation to warn the elevator operators that it is one thing to buy stocks for cash and another thing to use borrowed money." With that, FRB suddenly announced a boost in margin requirements: investors would have to put up 60% cash to buy stocks instead...
TIRE PRICES, up 5% in the last few months, are headed still higher. Both U.S. Rubber and Goodyear have just announced 2½% to 5% price boosts because of continuing high crude-rubber prices, and the rest of the industry will probably follow suit. Predictions are for an overall 8% boost by June...
...enlightened lumbermen talked of timber as a steady crop instead of something to be mined like gold. But no one did much in an organized way until 1941, when dwindling U.S. lumber reserves, new wood-using industries, and the increased needs of World War II gave the idea a boost. For a starter, Weyerhaeuser planted the first 120,000 acres of logged-over ground near Montesano, Wash, with Douglas fir seedlings, and sat back to watch them grow to logging size in 80 to 100 years...