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That was the situation last week when Chester Bowles went to work. Mr. Bowles, busy cutting "wage-patterns," cut one for the meat industry - a 16? wage boost for packinghouse workers, 1½% boost in the price of meat, continued subsidies to cattle raisers and slaughterers...
...steel industry had gotten its open hearths going in double-quick time. It would be up to 78.4% of capacity this week. But weeks will pass before steel is flowing evenly to industry again. And the boost in steel prices has raised a host of new problems for suppliers. OPA hoped that the raise might be absorbed along the line. But where and how? The price raise may make it harder than ever for manufacturers to break the bottlenecks -e.g., in castings-which have plagued industry as viciously in peace as in war. For lack of one small part, many...
...that, if necessary, the Civilian Production Administration would step in and allocate steel to K-F. In any case, K-F and Graham-Paige will not get enough to make more than 1,500 cars a day, a figure they hope (overoptimistically, say automakers) to reach next October. To boost production above this, they will have to make cars with aluminum bodies. This may prove to be one of the toughest jobs Kaiser has ever tackled...
Last week they put the finishing touches to a new plan they both heartily approved: a $5,000,000 construction and expansion program designed to boost Rich's annual sales volume...
Bill Jackson started it off by tossing the shot a healthy 52 feet, 9 3/4 inches; John Holbrook followed by taking the broad jump, and Harwood's 12-foot boost took first in the pole-vault. A 6-foot, 2-inch high jump by Jim Harrington concluded the field events...