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Before getting down to specifics, the union's 50-man negotiating board brought up unemployment. It reported that some 16% of the industry's 1,200,000 workers in the U.S. are out of jobs, and asked Big Steel to boost production. Though the steel operating rate has been rising in recent weeks (current rate: 70%), the union talked "crisis," proposed "a six-hour day with eight-hour pay." That out of the way, the union laid out sweeping proposals adding up to an estimated 50?-an-hour increase.* Items...
...full union shop and a general wage boost...
Died. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, 62, who, as chief of Army Air Forces materiel in World War II, helped boost plane production from 15,855 aircraft in 1941 to 69,930 in 1945; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif...
EASTERN AIR LINES, whose costs have been rising faster than its increase in passengers, will shoot for higher volume through more low-fare air-coach service. Starting next week, Eastern will increase coach planes from 22% to ,50% of its total flights, expects to boost the percentage...
After blowing a 5 to 0 lead and losing to Army Friday, 9 to 5, the varsity baseball team rebounded Saturday to whip Cornell, 10 to 3, and boost its Eastern league standing to two wins and three losses...