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...have mounted well over last year's $1900 figure and are steadily rising. Patricia E. White '46, assistant director of Radcliffe's 70th Anniversary fund, announced yesterday. A near-capacity crowd of 2,357 filled Symphony Hall for the performance. Snack bar and enterprise booth profits are expected to boost the total as high...
...terms included a 13? boost to $1.88 an hour (it was $1.25 in 1945), and 19½? to $2.82 an hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
...contract they negotiated was for an unprecedented three years. It gave longshoremen a 15? boost to $1.82 an hour straight time, $2.73 an hour overtime. It provided better grievance machinery and continued the hiring halls until the courts decided whether they were legal under the Taft-Hartley law. After Congress rewrites the law, the hiring halls will probably be legal anyhow...
...wholesalers, loaded with goods made at higher costs, were still trying to get the old prices. Retailers wanted new stock at prices reflecting present costs. To move old stock they were trimming price tags to that level. Nevertheless, Lazarus felt that price cuts and better quality goods would boost December sales enough to take up November's slack, and more...
Automakers brushed off the slump. They thought it was due to 1) a normal seasonal decline, 2) the revival of credit controls in September and 3) the wait for new models. In fact, General Motors last week was so confident of renewed demand that it thought it safe to boost prices $50 to $100 on 1949 Buicks and $54 to $112 on 1949 Cadillacs...