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They watched Chester Bowies' price line buckle again as Bowles reluctantly granted price increases in milk, butter and cheese which he estimated would cost the public an annual $250 million. They listened as U.A.W.'s Chrysler workers, who had won an 18½? wage boost in January, served notice of another wage demand. The Washington economists, who had hoped they could prevent a boom & bust, saw the spiral still spiraling upwards...
...them will be used to rebuild Unilever plants on the Continent, although they were comparatively little damaged. Some will go to pay N.V. stockholders a whopping back dividend of 29.6%, announced last week. Probably Unilever Ltd., which has never missed a dividend (10% in prewar years), will now boost its wartime rate...
...terms: a 2½?an-hour increase (added to the 16? boost previously offered) in lieu of changes in working rules for one year (see Labor...
From Washington came one ray of hope. The Wage Stabilization Board gave copper producers approval to use a wage increase (not to exceed 18½? an hour) as a basis for a boost in prices. Up till then the strike-bound mining companies (Kennecott, Phelps Dodge) had refused to meet demands for an 18½? boost. The present 12?-a-lb. copper ceiling price, they maintained, was too low to meet these demands. To take care of this, OPA is expected to announce a boost in the copper ceiling price to 14.32? this week-enough, it hopes, to absorb...
They had been caught unawares. They had thought he was going to be sweetly reasonable. They had thought they could settle for at least an 18½ wage boost. They were ready to make a lot of other concessions. Then John Lewis attacked...