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...eventual monetary result of the new contract will be to raise the average hourly wage of the dining hall employees 16 percent, but the upward movement will not take place immediately, Reynolds emphasized, because of the necessity of hiring more employees to fill in when the work-week is reduced to five days...
...Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...might be, if the drop in prices brought out enough hoarded cotton goods. There was little doubt that large quantities (one estimate was 1,000,000,000 yards) had been held back in hope of higher prices. OPA had been required to adjust the price of cotton goods upward every month, in line with the rise in raw cotton. This month, for the first time in months, OPA has not had to raise the price. Now, in fear that the peak had been passed, manufacturers were disgorging...
...tightest kind of squeeze. While room, board, and hospital fees go up around them, the student employees of the University are forced to accept wage seales that were determined before the war and not much modified since then. Under popular pressure, the Student Employment Service has revised upward certain wages in individual departments, but the whole picture is marked with a general unwillingness on the part of the University to compensate for the radical change in educational costs...
...Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this picture...