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...Philadelphia was about to give local musical talent a boost. Soon to be played there for the first time was a newly discovered quartet for strings written by a neglected Philadelphia composer: Benjamin Franklin...
...inadequacies. The routine run on restaurant and sales jobs in the Boston area has grown with the realization that only outside the University can the undergraduate find an hourly wage rate high enough to cover spiralling expenses. The average $.75 hourly rate on the outside is a big boost over the University's $.55 But the convenience of University jobs, plus the possibilities of combining study with work, makes this type of employment the logical answer to the individual student's needs...
Industry negotiators bounced to the ceiling at Petrillo's initial wage demands, wildly claimed that he was asking a 533% boost in some categories. "Only 533%?" mocked the Czar. "Why not 560%? Those industry guys always say to me: 'Do you want to put us out of business?' And I say, 'No, I wanna be in business with...
...take the clothes back. Some stores that had illegal two-piece dresses were getting around the law by selling them as two separate garments. But most retailers have only the dubious out of snipping the illegal margins off their dresses. This would either 1) spoil the design, or 2) boost the price because of alteration cost. And the snippings would be of no use to anyone...
...Wholesalers will profit by the difference. But cigaret smokers will pay 1? a pack more for all major brands (last week's ½? raise, along with a six-months-old ½? raise which retailers have been absorbing). Cigaret makers did not seem worried lest the price boost seriously cut sales further; they are already well down from their wartime peak...