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Putnam's ukases did not make a strike inevitable, despite Murray's threat. The union's wage demands, made public this week, would boost average earnings by 19? to 20? an hour; if these are trimmed to accord with the WSB formula, the stabilizers might give the nod to Murray's demands for fringe benefits (longer vacations, higher shift premiums) without undignified retreat. Murray is also asking that the steel companies guarantee to each employee with three years' service annual earnings equal to 32 hours a week for 52 weeks...
...Oates's newest pipeline will boost the Chicago area's natural-gas supply by 374 million cubic feet daily, an increase of 73%. Gates is working on still another method of satisfying his customers. His company has leased 12,000 acres of land outside Joliet, under which is a domelike geological formation. In the next few years, Gates plans to start pumping surplus gas into the ground there each summer, store it for use in the peak winter season. Developing this vast storage space (90 billion cubic feet) will cost $50 million, but spending that kind of money...
...C.C.A. is trying to shift expansion away from petroleum products which are 69% of its sales. It wants to boost sales in farm machinery, fertilizer, food and home appliances. By doing so, it expects to hit annual sales of $100 million...
...whether the maids and janitors deserve a new wage hike, but whether they have the right to ask for one before their contract expires, setting precedent for such demands. Once successful, they can use every future government Cost-of-Living Index to prove they need a new boost in wages...
Sullivan said he expected no trouble this year if the University refuses to satisfy the H.U.E.R.A.'s latest wage boost request...