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...went well. But it was the durable-goods industries which were now faced with new wage demands. And there was no guarantee that price cuts would eliminate them. Ford has cut prices-and promised further cuts. But the U.A.W.C.I.0. last week asked for a 23½?-an-hour pay boost...
...This week one very old one was settled (see Labor), and another, in the rubber industry, was avoided when a compromise wage boost was granted...
...story is told in terms of Bolivia's one export crop: tin. For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S. Metals Reserve Co. for a 9?-a-pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
Speculation, encouraged by heavy Government buying for export, was largely responsible for $3 wheat in the first place. What knocked the price down was 1) a boost in margins and 2) a change in the Government's delivery requirements. It agreed to accept many deliveries wherever the wheat is, rather than at Kansas City, as called for in contracts. This eased the pinch in wheat markets which were being drained of spot wheat for deliveries...
...last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved their request for a 10% raise in passenger fares (from 4.68? a mile to slightly more than 5?) to last for 90 days. The lines had cried that increased operating costs had made them lose $10,000,000 last year. The boost, they hopefully estimated, would increase gross revenues by $25,000,000, make up for the increased costs...