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...last week's shooting in the León square was slight, gold-toothed José Valades, national organizing secretary of the Sinarquistas. He thought it would boost Sinarquista membership. In national political terms, the massacre would cost P.R.M.'s probable candidate, Miguel Alemán, some votes in the July presidential elections, gain some for ex-foreign minister Ezequiel Padilla, who is supported by Catholic rightists...
...Juan Domingo Perón had completed his plans for a campaign tour of Argentine provinces. He had every reason to expect a welcome as warm as Santa Claus's, one translatable into votes on presidential election day, next Feb. 24. The reason: a governmental decree last week boosting pay an average 30% for some 3,000,000 workers (1,000,000 more than the normal total of Argentine voters). The boost had been Perón's idea, left with the Government when he was ousted in October...
Negotiations continued amiably. Detroit dopesters believed that a new Ford contract, with a compromise wage boost...
...present air rates. At the lowest air freight rate to date for scheduled air routes, 26? per ton mile, Myers found only a "meager volume" of perishables could be shipped. But, he added hopefully, rates could be reduced sufficiently by specially designed freight planes, including insulation, to boost volume. Would this be done? Cocky Myers bluntly warned West Coasters that they had better see that it is done. Said he: "We must revolutionize our methods [or] it will be an invitation to the quick freezers and dehydrators to take over all or part of our perishable business...
Empty Glass. The East and West Coasts suffered from a new shortage -milk. Returning G.I.s, who got little milk abroad, had helped boost consumption to a new high, just when production was at its seasonal low. The Department of Agriculture promised that the new year will bring a fuller pail...