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...There was no evidence of unlawful collusion between steel producers on the uniform boost. (But the FBI, after interviewing the heads of 16 leading steel companies, is still investigating...
...newspapers and the steel industry had had their say on the controversial $5 to $6 a ton price boost in semi-finished steel. Last week, in reports by the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice and the Council of Economic Advisers, the Administration summed up. Items...
When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
...Though the industry had declared that the boost would not affect finished steel, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...
...Spring reading a few days before Ab registration. The student would be assured of a more valuable course, the instructor a more receptive class. If overloadings resulted, second or third choices could be satisfied. Three hundred men changed their sections last term and the new plan would hardly boost this turnover. And the student would know where he's going...