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...wage boost and price rise in steel in February 1946 took the last brakes off the postwar spiral of inflation. Last week, out of a clear sky with an apparently unlimited ceiling, U.S. Steel flatly rejected another round of wage demands-the third since 1946-and proclaimed instead a price cut (see BUSINESS...
Fortnight ago the I.T.U. and the dailies had come to a tentative agreement. The publishers agreed to boost wages to $99 a week for day work, highest I.T.U. wages in the U.S. To play safe, the papers kept their VariType crews working. Then Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...
Third Time Around. ICC granted Class I railroads an average boost in freight rates of about 4.2%, the third increase since last October (total average increase: 21.4%). Class I railroads stood to add about $300,000,000 to their revenues, which had been sharply cut by increased labor and operating costs...
...only bright note on the hitting side was the fact that two men with hitherto slim averages found the northern pitching to their taste. Chip Gannon and Huntington each got two clean hits to boost their standing considerably...
...biggest breaks giving Harvard moviemen a chance to crash into Ivy-League film circles, is a two page spread in a national magazine that will hit the newstands in August. "It may be the final boost we need," Alden added optimistically...