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...higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...
...last week Round No. 3 produced its first crisis. It arose out of a demand by three A.F.L. unions, representing some 50,000 Western Union employees, for a 15?-an-hour hike. Western Union offered to give from a penny to a nickel more per hour to 9,029 workers, nothing to the rest. The unions branded the offer "insulting," called a strike for this week...
...Television Magazine reported an increase in television advertisers (89 in August to 107 in September). NBC will soon hike the price for the use of its television studios from $850 to $1,500 an hour...
...dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
Halftime Saturday will find fife and drummers ready for a battle-of-the-bands with a new Virginia medley which includes "Hike Virginia," Virginia Cavalier Song," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," and "Virginia Hail All Hail...