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...year pay boost for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Normally able to make both ends meet and also have a substantial reserve, the Department has experienced a 72 percent rise in food costs since 1942, and a wage boost of about 100 percent for general help, with raises in the pay and numbers of doctors and nurses scheduled for the near future...
Mindful of his publisher-sponsors, Hogan argues that facsimile could boost rather than bust the press. Smart newsmen, says he, will use it for spot bulletins and edition teasers. Yet many a skeptical publisher, with one eye on his costly presses and linotypes, noted that during the eight night hours, a facsimile recorder could be rolling out a 128-page morning newspaper, with news hours ahead of the standard press...
With empty pockets ostentatiously turned out, and hats in their hands, the railroads called on the Interstate Commerce Commission last week. Humbly they asked for a 25% increase in freight rates. They also wanted to keep the 10% wartime boost in passenger rates...
...Murray studios in 61 other U.S. cities are owned independently (mostly by ex-New York instructors), operated under a franchise system through which Murray gets 10% of the gross. Last year all this paid Murray and his wife a net profit of $500,000. This year he hopes to boost his gross to a record...