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...union has demanded an immediate 25 cents hourly wage hike, although its members presently receive $2.51 an hour plus fringe benefits, highest in the nation. The transit authorities, on the other hand, have proposed nine pages of work rule changes designed to save $2 million annually, and will probably refuse to grant another wage boost...
...staff in Haiti to 66 technicians, including an art professor from the University of California, a traffic expert sent to study Port-au-Prince's breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting in on talks about a schedule of taxes and customs duties. Cost...
...showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold in all of September, and sales for the last ten-day period were running 20% over the previous ten days. Some dealers took advantage of the scramble to hike prices, and even unsold 1959 models, in some areas, were commanding full list prices...
Hardly a householder in the U.S. needed proof of it, but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last week sent out the news that the cost of living was up again. The overall hike in September amounted to .3% over August, bringing the current index to a record 125.2. Meaning: a dollar's worth by 1947-49 standards now costs the consumer...
...policies of the Dining Hall Department have recently come under scrutiny because of the proposed increase in board rates. Although the College already has the highest board charge among Ivy League colleges, the Department states emphatically another hike is necessary...