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With that, the negotiations collapsed. The steelmasters, confident that the Government would allow them a price increase, had tentatively offered a bigger wage-benefit boost than most observers thought they would. By doing so, they had hoped to isolate the union-shop issue, so that they could argue that Murray was keeping the strike going only to build his union's membership and its treasury. Phil Murray, who didn't want the union-shop issue isolated, contended hotly that there had not been a final agreement on anything...
Most big lines make money only with the help of sizable government subsidies. Last year, with a $4,501,608 subsidy and a fleet of 46 moneymaking freighters, U.S. Lines earned $7,489,812. It is counting on a big subsidy boost to help pay for operating the United States...
...totaled $2.7 billion, a new record, and pushed the total for 1952's first five months 3% above 1952's period. Government spending contributed the biggest increase (25%), mainly for expansion of military, AEC and defense-plant facilities. This week the Federal Reserve Board gave building another boost by easing Regulation X, which curbed housing credit, to lower the down payments required on homes...
After losing to Boston College, 3 to 2, on Thursday and edging Williams, 4 to 3, on Saturday, the Crimson nine will try to boost its post-exam record into the black at New Haven today. The varsity will also be fighting for' an edge in the year's series with Yale. On May 4 they split a doubleheader with the Bulldogs...
...Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan pooh-poohed the Senate's investigation as "politics," a "fishing expedition," and "crackers thrown into the fan." Yet as the probe progressed, more & more cases of grain thefts by farmers and warehousemen were uncovered. And with each new case, Brannan had to boost his estimate of the money lost in his grain storage program...