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Eckstein labeled as "sheer speculation" any attempt to guess whether all the large steel companies would now hike their prices. But the fact that the other companies have done nothing yet is a "good sign" that they plan to hold the line, he said...
Wheeling's price increase is "mysterious" to Eckstein because it is only the 11th leading producer. In the past U.S. Steel has usually been the first to raise prices. He said that perhaps the industry is trying something new after what happened in last year's attempted price hike...
Rising to a challenge by the Scotch university, the local peripatetics drove northwest of Cambridge to Fitchburg, where they began their hike back about...
...Hemmed In." Last January, President Kennedy proposed that the district's income be hiked by $47 million annually within the next three years by increasing federal payments and raising district taxes. Predictably, McMillan's committee whittled away most of the proposed hike. Later, in a huff over repeated newspaper and TV attacks on the cuts, McMillan announced that he figured the furor had ruined the chances for any raise at all in payments this year...
...comparing wages in private and government-owned industry, with an eye toward making adjustments. But he was still rankled at the monetary support given the strikers by the Roman Catholic Church in the northern coal areas. Asked where the funds would come from to pay for any wage hike, he suggested: "We could always take up a collection in the churches...