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...bill cut in half; it also paid off $114,000,000 on war plants. Result: net profits were down only to $57,000,000 v. $61,000,000 in 1944. Bethlehem Steel did even better. C.I.O.-hating Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel came up smiling with a boost in profits...
...Government's attempt to turn farming, needle-sensitive to prices and demand, into a planned economy. Under present ceilings, the farmer can make more money by feeding grain to hogs and cattle than by selling it. The Government-fixed premium price for fat hogs, introduced in 1944 to boost the yield of fats and oils for Europe, encourages the farmer to feed hogs to the bursting point...
...Thomas was moved at week's end when G.M. electrical workers abruptly ended their strike, affecting 25,000 employes at G.M. plants in Ohio and New York, a handful in Detroit. The C.I.O. electrical workers had secretly settled for an 18½?-an-hour wage boost. (The auto workers are demanding 19½?.) The settlement left Thomas "terribly shocked." Said he: "It put us in an awful spot, since G.M. now will come to us insisting that we settle on the same terms...
...Father Rector treated the wounded as well as he could. He had to confine himself in general to cleansing the wounds of purulent material. Even those with the smaller burns were very weak, and all suffered from diarrhea. Our work was, in the eyes of the people, a greater boost for Christianity than all our work during the preceding long years...
...F.P.A. had hiked his pay to $21,852 a year, for a syndicated column in the New York Herald Tribune. When he tried to boost it higher and was offered a pay cut instead, F.P.A. submerged, surfaced his "Conning Tower" again on the New York Post. The Post fired him in 1941 because the Adams style of poetry a la Horace and Herrick was too fancy for the subway trade...