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...waited more than six hours for the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers to make up its mind about what kind of a contract it wanted at Ford. The union had the choice of a straight 11½? increase plus six paid holidays or a 7?-an-hour pay boost along with a pension plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election on it. At 11:59 p.m. the U.A.W...
...operating in the District of Columbia were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury yesterday on charges of fixing commission rates for real estate dealers in Washington. The charges followed 15 days after Attorney General Clark's directive to the Department of Justice to seek out and prosecute conspiracies to boost the cost of food, clothing, and housing...
Also Up: Hot Potatoes. All this caused an unseemly bit of scurrying in Washington. Attorney General Tom Clark hastily ordered his understaffed antitrust division to get hot after collusion in price gouging. Tom Clark blustered that jail terms were in store for businessmen who conspired to boost prices in food, clothing and housing...
Government officials and financiers once again went over the possible courses of action. Devaluation of the Canadian dollar would step up the intake of U.S. dollars, but it would also boost the Canadian cost of living, so that was out. Canada might sell more to the U.S., but it could never sell enough to close the gap. She could hope for European purchases, to be paid for in dollars, if the "Marshall approach" got under way. But that was a matter beyond Canada's control. The remaining alternatives were a U.S. loan, or a cut in U.S. imports...
...Oklahoma City. The bigger properties are all under the care of well paid managers, but Autry makes all major decisions himself, passes on many minor ones. Along with royalties from recordings and from, some 40 other products ranging from Gene Autry Hair Oil to cap pistols, his investments will boost his income this year to well over...