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With an ear to such warnings, businessmen have begun to pay more heed to spreading the dividends of increased production and cost-cutting automation. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced an "anti-inflation" cut of 5% to 15% in prices of replacement tires. Norge reduced its washer and dryer tags as much as 10%. The Federal Communications Commission chimed in, ordered a reluctant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to reduce long-distance telephone rates (for calls of more than 300 miles) by $50 million. In heavy industry-where cuts trickle down eventually to the consumer-General Electric lopped...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A faithful reproduction of the terrifying training mission of a real-life jet-bomber crew. A rerun for those who missed The Obenauf Story (TiME, April 13), but worth seeing again by those who sweated out the original show...
TIRE PRICE FIXING was charged by FTC against 15 tire and tube manufacturers who account for virtually all of the industry's $2 billion annual sales volume. FTC alleged that the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S. Rubber-and others set up zoned pricing system on tires and tubes, which deprived purchasers near production plants of transportation cost savings...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). James Thurber's story Christabel, about a little girl whose dog eats all the heads off the asparagus in daddy's suburban garden...
Numb. With admirable attention to the truth, the Goodyear Theater (NBC) presented The Obenauf Story, the heroic accomplishment of Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, who saved himself, a fellow officer and a $2,000,000 airplane when he landed a crippled six-jet B-47 at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas (TIME, May 12). As Obie, the young father, Actor Kerwin Mathews was at first quietly convincing. Later, when Obenauf found himself at 34,000 feet in command of a burning plane, all the rest of the crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia...