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...jam was broken. The new White House wage-price formula gave the steel industry a $5-a-ton price increase; the industry promptly gave its workers an 18½?-an-hour raise...
...last we can say-'Travel for Pleasure.' " In newspaper ads the Greyhound Corp. bus lines thus caroled that the worst travel jam in U.S. history was about over. The Office of Defense Transportation chimed in. On Feb. 15, U.S. airlines can stop setting aside 70% of their eastbound transcontinental space for servicemen. On March 15, ODT restrictions on Pullman runs and on advance rail reservations will...
...Conferred with U.S. Steel President Benjamin F. Fairless and C.I.O. President Philip Murray in an attempt to break the Nation's strike jam (see Labor...
Second in importance only to the Security Council was the Economic and Social Council. Seventeen of the 18 seats were filled. For the last seat neither U.S.-backed New Zealand nor Russia-backed Yugoslavia gained the necessary two-thirds vote. New Zealand broke the jam by withdrawing in favor of Yugoslavia...
...crowd of 3,000 jive addicts was one of the largest ever to jam Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Hepsters overflowed into a chamber music hall upstairs to get their rhythms by remote control, piped from the auditorium below. There was no doubt that Duke Ellington, twice winner of Esquire's All-American jazz poll, could still make more dollars dance at the box-office than such latter-day swing merchants as Eddie Condon, Lionel Hampton and Hazel Scott...