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Highlights of the report, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: between mid-February and mid-March the U.S. consumer price index (1947-49 = 100).jumped 0.2% over the previous period, to an all-time high of 118.9. The increase, seventh consecutive one in as many months, brought living costs 3.7% over what they were a year ago-and the U.S. dollar down to 81% of what it was worth in 1947-49. An immediate effect of the rise: automatic (1? to 3? an hour) wage hikes for some 1,400,000 industrial workers whose earnings are tied...
Cordiality in Kabul. Setting out in mid-March with six Washington-appointed aides and two secretaries, Richards started off with pro-Western countries: Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. With apparent success he earnestly tried to clear away any suspicions that the Eisenhower Doctrine harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint...
...home. He had signed a contract to buy (for $75,000 on a property appraised at $67,500) the 21-room (six bedrooms), old stone house owned by the late Homer Cummings, onetime (1933-39) Democratic Attorney General. The approximate moving date to fashionable Wesley Heights in northwest Washington: mid-March...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the giddy fluctuations in onion prices seemed very suspicious to the Commodity Exchange Authority. Beginning at $2.75 per 50-lb. bag last August, the price skidded t010? by mid-March. Last week the Commodity Exchange Authority formally charged that it had sniffed out-as it suspected-a price manipulation plot...
...miles across the Tasman Sea, was still ahead. Once more Major Hayter went to work. He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111. In mid-March he stood south again until he hit the Roaring Forties, off the southwest tip of the continent. There he simply "put in three reefs and set course east...