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...week's end, Lewis met with U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey. Reportedly Fairless and Humphrey had offered wage increases up to $13.05 for an eight-hour day. It worked out to around a 35?-an-hour wage boost, more than twice the 1947 pattern. But there was no assurance that Lewis would accept...
...intention of changing the weekly's vigorous liberalism, its anti-denominationalism, its habit of speaking its mind. His biggest policy change, he says, will be a greater attempt to appeal to the laity. About 25% of the Century's readers are laymen; Editor Hutchinson hopes to boost it to 50%. Says he: "I'd like to keep our theological editorials short and crisp. Now, Dr. Morrison's editorials on theology are certainly impressive, but a bit overpowering...
...professional politicos, who had largely ignored the Wallace junket, tried to laugh the whole thing off. They said it was all just a stunt to boost the circulation of Editor Wallace's New Republic (circ. 80,000), and that his audiences, promoted by the Communists, were chiefly a confused jumble of comrades, fellow wanderers, crackpots and wild-eyed college kids...
...Anchor Line's S.S. Egidia steamed into New York harbor last week with her holds filled with 2,500,000 fifths of Scotch whiskey. It was the largest single shipment in seven years. Britain is planning to increase her Scotch production and exports to boost her dollar balances, and many other such shipments will soon follow. But this prospect brought no cheers from liquor retailers, many of whom are caught with supplies of high-priced Scotch in their cellars...
...present enlistment rates, the Army will be even worse off by fall. By July 1, it will have lost the last of its draftees. From July to September a rush of departing short-term volunteers will boost discharge totals to 40,000 a month. To offset the trend, the Army can only hope for a big influx of high-school graduates (who are less enthusiastic about volunteering since the end of the draft) and a new recruiting bill now before Congress. The bill would permit enlistments of between two and six years, with a $50 annual bonus for indefinite "career...