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COLLECTIVE BARGAINING "will be tougher in 1958" due to "the leveling off of business," predicts Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. He reasons that profits are being squeezed and management will put up a stiffer front against union demands...
White stated that the decrease in concentrators might be a temporary phenomenon. "In two or three years the stiffer requirements may increase the department's reputation and attract more and better people," he said...
...AUTO EXPORTS are down owing to mounting gasoline prices, stiffer competition from foreign automakers and higher taxes placed by some countries on heavier cars. In first half of 1957 U.S. exported only 88,214 new cars, a reduction of 29% from...
Even as Colonel Abel was arraigned in Brooklyn, two members of a second, probably unrelated Soviet spy ring were sentenced in Manhattan to 5½-year prison terms apiece. The two: Confessed Soviet Spies Myra Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 65, who escaped stiffer penalties by being "cooperative" with the U.S. Department of Justice. Already, secret testimony from Myra's husband Jack Soble has fingered two members of the ever-widening ring: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence Officer George Zlatovski and his wife Jane, now in Paris (TIME, July 22). According to U.S. officials, Jack Soble, tempted by the prospect...
...around and now came off the Boston shore. A superior Princeton crew won by a length and a half over the JV's with a time of 9:09.8. The Harvard boat rowed a much better race than they did against Syracuse, but this time they were up against stiffer competition...