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...Approved legislation for a $130 million-a-year boost in U.S. postal rates. The bill would raise rates in all classes of service except letters, boost the mailing cost for postcards...
...companies began diverting overseas production to the U.S. market, where there was also a surplus, independent producers were squeezed. They began demanding everything from a presidential embargo to a tariff boost on imported oil from 10½ to $1.05 a barrel. Frightened major companies cut back planned 1950 imports by as much...
More in sorrow than in anger, steelmen stomped into the Senate caucus room last week. They were not there, as one of them said, to defend the latest boost in the price of steel (TIME, Dec. 26); they didn't think they had to. But they wanted to explain it to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...
...nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices another $17 a ton. (He told newsmen later that he was not thinking of raising prices at the moment, but "just as soon as competition will permit it, damned if I'm not going...
...room King Edward. The others: Hamilton's Royal Connaught, Windsor's Prince Edward, Niagara Falls' General Brock, and the Alpine Inn at Ste. Marguerite, Quebec, which Henderson plans to sell as soon as he can find a buyer. Henderson figured that the deal would boost his Sheraton Corp.'s total hotel assets to $64 million, though still well behind Conrad Hilton, the biggest U.S. hotel operator...