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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exploiting her, and the idea is galling. ("I'm a very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance on a newcomer; furthermore, he says, Shirley was amply repaid, got bonuses and was treated royally. "I went up to her on the set during the week...
...hopefully risen to the year's high. Producers say that the price of aluminum at 24.7?a Ib. is too low. Although a price rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe and Canada percapita consumption of aluminum is only 6.2 Ibs. a year v. 21 Ibs. in the U.S. Says Reynolds' President R. S. Reynolds Jr.: "International...
TIRE PRICE FIXING was charged by FTC against 15 tire and tube manufacturers who account for virtually all of the industry's $2 billion annual sales volume. FTC alleged that the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S. Rubber-and others set up zoned pricing system on tires and tubes, which deprived purchasers near production plants of transportation cost savings...
...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...
...Seal drive, and in the last eleven years has given scholarships to more than 1,200 students from 67 countries. A neighborhood club at heart. Rotary would like, as Harold Thomas puts it, to "make the whole world a neighborhood, and bring it even more bridges to friendship." It set up the cultural exchange group that later became UNESCO, settled a 150-year-old boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru...