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...backlog of other legislation gathering dust in Congress affected all the services equally. The proposed 20% pay boost was still just a proposal. In an election year, no one liked even to talk about universal military training. Plans for merger of the armed forces were stalemated. Congress was still thinking it all over...
...week told industry what the new wage-price policy really means. The clarification still left vast areas of fog. The policy does not mean, said Bowles, that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages and low ceilings or 2) a forecast of earnings indicates that profits...
Down to Earth. To step up production of low-cost cotton materials and clothing, OPA granted textile mills increases which will bring them $250,000,000 more a year, add 5 to 15% to the prices of shirts, shorts, etc. OPA also gave a price boost to makers of men's & boys' suits. Now manufacturers who have been hoarding them, waiting for just such an increase, may put them on the market...
...last week the profitable Book Find Club had 70,000 members and 70 employes. It was splurging on an advertising campaign, which it hopes will sell $1,250,000 worth of books this year, boost membership to about...
Nevertheless, energetic Mr. Scherman is not satisfied. This month he will launch a new advertising campaign, which he hopes will boost B.O.M.C. members over 1,000,000, make it the biggest book club...