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...STEPHEN C. SPILKY...
Andrews Air Base Washington, D. C...
STEEL PRICE RISE, "considerably in excess of the inadequate increase" of an average $8.50 a ton last year, will be needed when steelworkers' wages and fringe benefits go up about 19? an hour in July, predicts Republic Steel Chairman C. M. White...
...five years we have had these attacks with all the regularity of an annual case of spring fever. And now, once again-to use a great mixed metaphor-'The crape-hangers are crying wolf in the marketplace.' " So said Ford Edsel Division General Sales Manager J. C. Doyle last week, commenting on the curious psychology of businessmen and the U.S. public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that...
...steel "slump," U.S. Steel and Republic Steel distributed thousands of copies of speeches by executives pointing out that the slowdown was minor and that the industry still expected a good year. Even the facts about layoffs and shutdowns rarely tell the whole story. Says Cleveland Trust Co. Economist David C. Elliot: "You read about 200 layoffs here, 500 there, a shutdown elsewhere. They're confined to a few spots like autos or appliances, and add up to an infinitesimal fraction of total employment. But to the uninformed, they indicate that the economy has turned sour...