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...casually as a salesman flipping open the door of a new model, the Chrysler Corp. made auto industry history last week: it offered a $25 million-a-year (10?-15?-an-hour) cost-of-living wage increase to 120,000 workers, despite its three-year contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. which freezes wages until July 1, 1951. (The increase had not come without prodding by the union; wildcat strikers, disgruntled over the rise in the cost of living, had thrown 13,000 out of work.) In the fast tightening labor market, Chrysler's new pay scale will help...
...Gunderson on RFC's board, and to fill the vacancy left by Director Henry Mulligan, who resigned almost four months ago, the President last week made three nominations: two were Democrats-Oklahoma Banker W. Elmer Harber and Massachusetts Lawyer C. Edward Rowe-and the third was a Republican who talks like a Democrat: Utah Banker Walter E. Cosgriff. The President also renominated RFC Director William E. Willett, to a three-year term. He will probably be the new RFC chairman...
Seabright's members made another decision this year. For the first time in its history (except for a three-year wartime lapse), the Seabright Bowl will not be placed in competition this summer. It was not a matter of money; last year's tournament, won by San Francisco's Earl Cochell, easily cleared expenses. The members simply decided that the tournament was becoming too much fuss...
...hide, injected 2 cc of vaccine and clipped a tag to its ear. The two men were agents of the Mexico-U.S. commission for the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, known in Spanish as aftosa. They were winding up the last series of injections in a three-year campaign to rid Mexico of the disease...
...chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Brien McMahon was in a fine spot to do a friend a favor. Dean was appointed to AEC in the first place at McMahon's urging, was reappointed this year to a fresh three-year term. Seattle-born Gordon Dean, 44, began his public career under McMahon's wing. In 1934, he quit teaching law at Duke University to become assistant to McMahon in the Justice Department's Criminal Division; there the two became friends. Dean spent six years at Justice, quit to join McMahon's Washington...