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...Manhattan last week, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ben Moreell stood up before a special Wage Stabilization Board panel which is trying to decide if 650,000 of the nation's steelworkers are entitled to another wage boost. Said Admiral Moreell (ret.): the union's demand for an 18½? raise plus fringe benefits which are estimated to bring the total raise up to 50? an hour would set off such a wave of rising prices that it would probably cost Jones & Laughlin $95 million a year, $10 million more than all of its 1951 earnings...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Wilber Elliott Wilder, 95, oldest surviving graduate ('77) of the U.S. Military Academy, winner of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action against the Apaches in 1882; on Governors Island...
Captain C. H. J. Keppler, USN (Ret.), chairman of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee at Harvard, has been working since last spring to formulate plans to "prevent or mitigate confusion and panic and to be ready for rescue and relief operations" in the event of air or atomic attack in the Harvard region...
Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Los Altos, Calif...
Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...