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...When the dollar price of gold was being forced up in 1933, the daily quotation was set by the President in a bedside conference with Morgenthau and RFChairman Jesse Jones; the figures were often arbitrary, and once the President agreed to a 21? boost because "it's a lucky number-it's three times seven...
Both sides-Joe's men and the Communists-shouted "Mutiny." They called off the fight long enough to march in a body on the ship owners to demand a 25% wage boost. But this was only a truce in the face of the common enemy, as they...
...other words, Nathan concluded, U.S. corporations in 1946 made a "lavish profit," and show every sign of continuing to do the same in 1947. Therefore, industry can grant labor a substantial wage boost without raising prices. The total boost could be $5.1 billion for workers in manufacturing plants-in percentage, 21% ever present rates. U.S. business as a whole, he figured, could grant a 25% boost...
...Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more production means more American capital in Saudi Arabia and more work and good wages for his impoverished Arab subjects.* Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help to exploit the Arabian pool...
...will benefit more by this happy marriage--Wallace in his desire to have a vehicle from which he can launch his fight anew for "the Roosevelt tradition," or the New Republic in its need to boost circulation and become in itself the leading progressive force in American literary life? But important though this question may be, it is to many practical observers secondary to the still-unanswered, fundamental issue--that of whether Wallace's common men will come to the support of this new venture in enough numbers to make his voice a weekly boom in their behalf...