Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Verdi: La Traviata (Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Opera House, Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza conducting; Columbia, 30 sides, two albums). Apparently Columbia intends to catch the impatient, who don't want to wait for Toscanini's promised recording of Traviata. The recording is uneven, and Rome's postwar opera company is not all it should be. Performance: fair...
Exactly nine days after President Truman asked them to "wait and see" before raising their prices, steelmakers got tired of waiting. The American Rolling Mill Co. was the first to act; it boosted its prices as much as $7 a ton. Next day Republic Steel Corp., third largest U.S. producer, boosted its prices $5 to $8. The same day, National Steel Corp. raised prices an average of $5.25 a ton. The following day, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. joined the move with raises of $6 to $7 a ton. The raises, on the whole, were much larger than anyone had expected...
Those men intending to compete who will be in residence in the fall, Borden added, can wait until after registration before making application...
...bring a special plea from President Truman to businessmen. He asked industrialists to withhold immediate increases in the price of coal and in the price of steel, "until the actual increases in costs are determined. It is only reasonable," said he, "to ask coal and steel producers to wait until a fair test has been made...
...reasonable that U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Benjamin F. Fairless, on vacation in Honolulu, said: "That's exactly what we intend to do." Big Steel, the bellwether of the industry, could well afford to wait. Its first-quarter profits totaled $39,234,000, nearly half as much as in all of record-high 1946, and the second quarter was expected to be just about as high. Smaller producers, not nearly so well fixed, boosted prices here & there, but most of them too held the line...