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Payrolls were growing fatter because basic industries continued to pick up:
...combination of improving world markets, an abundant supply of top-quality wheat, and energetic selling should give Canada a fatter share of the world wheat market. A team of Wheat Board salesmen plans to tour Europe this fall. Trade and Commerce Minister Gordon Churchill is also considering a personal selling visit to the Soviet Union, and possibly Red China, to try for bigger orders from last year's most surprising new customers. The one major stumbling block to bumper business is the U.S., which is completing a billion-bushel harvest of its own and is just as anxious...
...jobs at all to offer in the pineries, the ruling Agrarians complacently tried to hold the peat-bog farmers and other workers of the land with sky-high agricultural subsidies. The Communists, led by handsome Hertta Kuusinen,* shouted that the men of the forests wanted jobs, not fatter butter prices-and took five northern seats...
WALTER REUTHER'S POWER as undisputed labor chief of auto industry may be challenged by skilled members of his United Auto Workers who have formed two splinter craft unions, aim to file in 200 plants to win bargaining rights and fatter raises and benefits than unskilled U.A.W. men. Automakers will side with Reuther to battle splinter groups, fear that small number of separately organized skilled workers could paralyze industry if they wanted to strike...
...House and Senate voted final approval of a $1.5 billion pork barrel rivers-and-harbors authorization bill-with pork fatter by some $34 million in new projects added to the Senate version while the bill was before a conference committee, sent it to the President...