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...living" contract. (Wage rates are adjusted up or down quarterly, 1? for every 1.14 point change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index.) Said G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson: the markdown was intended to "pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain material items...
Under questioning, Administrator Hoffman admitted frankly that he could not furnish final breakdowns to show where all of the EGA money would go, but he emphasized that the totals had been revised "downward again & again." Few seemed inclined to dispute him. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, a man with a burning aversion to blank checks, conceded that the estimates looked "just about right...
...significant downward trend in prices has been noticed or is foreseen by seven Square merchants questioned by the CRIMSON yesterday. While slight price drops have occurred in furniture, cotton goods, and certain foods, the merchants indicated that hikes in the cost of woollens and meat are a distinct possibility this spring...
...Transition from war to peace economy cannot all be done in a long period of glorious prosperity," Professor Schumpeter said. The downward swing of prices that has been going on for the last few days is "not only inevitable," he said, "it is just what the country needs...
...aerodynamic tricks that man builds into his airplanes-and a few more besides. A bird's "propellers," explains Storer, are the big feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...