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CRIME The Rate...
Either answer would be wildly wrong, according to the FBI's latest Uniform Crime Reports. In the FBI list of felony rates in U.S. cities, Chicago ranks as the second most law-abiding of all, next to Buffalo, and the rate in New York City is lower than in Boston. Larger cities in the list, with rates per 1,000 of population for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, auto theft...
Because of its greater outlays in seaway construction, the Canadian seaway agency will retain 71% of all tolls for the St. Lawrence River; the U.S. will get 29%. The toll committees estimated that the rate structure they recommended will meet all operating costs of the seaway, pay off construction costs over a 50-year period...
...Both Westinghouse President Mark W. Cresap Jr. and General Electric President Robert Paxton saw little chance of a price cut in appliances, instead talked of price increases forced on the industry by higher labor and material costs. In steel, which picked up speed to a scheduled operating rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects to hike prices to cover the automatic wage increase going into...
...provide for the U.S. to guarantee private loans to the rails (the Senate set a $700 million limit, but the House set no ceiling), 2) give greater power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce service on money-losing routes. 3) tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations. Since chances seemed good that a relief bill would become law within a month, almost all major rail stocks advanced last week. The Dow-Jones rail index closed at the year's high of 119.21, up 19.32 points from the low in January...