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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Arthur B. Langlie confided to a friend that he had watched the pyrotechnics of Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement, found them distasteful. Said Langlie: "I'll be passing up the Chicago brand of prejudicial fire and brimstone in favor of what I've tried to make a higher tone." To his wife Evelyn he fretted: "I want to be sure that nobody can say this speech has any unjustified name-calling...
While the higher-flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
After tiptoeing upward for five months, living costs marched boldly higher across a broad front last week. In a pattern that had all the markings of the fifth general price adjustment since World War II (and the first since 1953), appliance makers announced increases of1% to 10% on TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines and electric ranges. Other manufacturers hiked their price tags on a wide variety of products, from mattresses to steel cabinets, rubber heels to beer. Scrap steel prices reached $63 a ton, a record high. Automakers estimated that 1957 cars will be from $30 to $300 more expensive...
While many businessmen blamed higher prices on the boost in steel ($8.50 a ton) and aluminum (1? per lb.). the adjustment in most cases also covered increases in wages, fringe benefits, raw materials and freight rates which had been nudging up production costs long before last month's steel strike. Led by a jump in food bills, the consumer price index, which since May 1953 had remained steady at around 114-115 (based on an average of 100 for the years 1947-49), started an uninterrupted rise in February, passed the alltime peak of 116.2 last June...
...HIGHER BEER PRICES for consumer will follow increases at wholesale level. New York breweries hiked prices 18? a case. Schlitz, largest U.S. producer, and other Milwaukee breweries will soon follow suit...