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...Cambridge has gone the same way. East Cambridge will see no more the kindly old neighborhood cop. No longer will the local patrolman help prevent crime by boosting some wayward youngster along the straight and narrow path. It is pretty difficult to boost someone from a moving car without knocking him down...
...when General Motors Corp. and Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) signed a "cost-of-living" contract, both sides hailed it as a noble experiment in labor relations. Under the contract, the autoworkers got an 11? an-hour raise, plus an automatic boost of 3? an hour at the end of the first year. They also agreed that their wages should be adjusted up or down each quarter to compensate for sizable movements of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "cost-of-living" index. For a while, it looked as if the union had played it smart: three...
...handle the company's war contracts, devised so simple a method for terminating them at war's end that it became an industry model. Impressed, the directors made him president in 1946. Price set his sights on three main goals: cut costs, step up productivity, and boost sales. He worked out an incentive plan whereby foremen get bonuses for every cost-cutting or production-boosting idea. In three years Westinghouse's net has jumped 40%. Last week, Price was just as confident about the future...
Business was also good in Wilmington, Del. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. reported 1949 earnings of $4.52 a share ($1.24 more than in 1948), an alltime record. The boost was due largely to bigger dividends from General Motors Corp., of which Du Pont owns 22.6%. Du Pont directors declared a 75? quarterly dividend, up 20% from 1949's first quarter...
...gave stockholders something else to celebrate: the company declared an extra dividend of $1.15 a share on top of its regular quarterly payment of 10?. Although the company's twelve-month sales had sagged 10% from $22 million in the previous year, Penman Sheaffer had been able to boost his previous $2.4 million profit...