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...America has boosted prices for three of its ten color sets by $45 to $50, will sell them in range from $645 to $745 v. previous $595 to $695. But lowest-priced RCA color TV will stay at $495 at least until summer, by which time company may hike all color prices to offset higher costs for labor, materials...
...FARE BOOST will be asked by United Air Lines. Nation's No. 2 domestic air-passenger carrier on March 1 will petition CAB for 6% hike on all passenger flights in order to offset higher costs...
...liability fund. The Andrea Doria being a total loss, its owners will pay only $400,000 into the fund, the amount the ill- fated vessel earned on its last trip. If the $4,400,000 total is not enough to satisfy the passenger-cargo claims, the Andrea Doria will hike its contribution another $1,800,000. The $4,400,000-to-$6,200,000 funds looked ridiculously small beside the $85 million in third-party claims already filed, but maritime experts last week hoped that it would be enough, figuring that many of the claims overlapped or were inflated...
...carfare hike dawned bright and chilly, and Barcelona's 463 streetcars started on their runs. Not a soul climbed aboard. Subways and bus lines were also nearly empty. Thousands of people who work two jobs to earn enough to live on got up at 5 a.m. to walk to work; their bosses, even at City Hall, were sympathetically tolerant of tardiness. Word had passed that there were to be no noisy gatherings, no overturned streetcars-just the simple protest of walking or hitchhiking...
Voluntary Curbs. Some Southern states, irked by Government sales of cotton to Japan at 25% discount, pushed for restrictive state laws to check Japanese imports. The Tariff Commission urged presidential approval of a 100% hike in velveteen tariffs, the highest in 27 years; it began studying higher tariffs on Japanese gingham imports, now 48% of U.S. production...