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...movement that sounded like another stiff price boost in steel got started quietly last week. Blaming increases in the cost of processing, Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. raised its "extra charges" (i.e., for size adjustments, heat treating, pickling, etc.) on hot-rolled sheet and strip steel by $3 to $15 a ton. Next day U.S. Steel boosted its prices on alloys, and Allegheny-Ludlum said that it would charge more for "several of our special grades...
...separate states can act in two ways. Legislatures can pass permissive legislation allowing cities and towns to expand their school system. Massachusetts granted this permission two years ago. And, second, the states must boost the community college plan with state funds and state facilities. Massachusetts has not gotten around to this yet; the Commonwealth boasts only four such terminal schools--in Holyoke, Newton, Northampton, and Springfield. Cambridge has 110,000 persons and plenty of tax receipts, but it has no community college, an ironical statistic for a city that compasses majestic Harvard and majestic M.I.T...
...union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their dues from an average $2 to $4 a month. But gratefully, they raised the Champ's salary from $25,000 to $50,000 a year...
...everything didn't look sour enough for the outcome of the still-distant Yale meet, Mikkola's immediate clashes with Tufts, led by Olympic-trained Ted Vogel, Holy Cross, and then Rhode Island surely won't boost morale...
...instrument landings with G.C.A., the U.S. Air Force this week gave Gilfillan Brothers a new $6,000,000 contract for 30 additional installations. (The Air Force now operates 92.) By year's end, Gilfillan expected to triple its gross (from $4,600,000 to $13 million), boost employment from...