Time Clock, may 19, 1958

FOOD PRICES are expected to decline a bit this month, cut consumer price index for first time since August of 1956. Reason: heavier supplies of beef, fruits, vegetables are coming on market.

BUILDING COSTS "will push upward at the rate of about 1 % every four months" for the next year at least, predicts authoritative F. W. Dodge Corp.

FIRST NEGRO STEWARDESS aboard a U.S.-flag international airline will go to work with Trans World Airlines. She is Margaret Grant, 21, who will graduate next month from Manhattan's Hunter College (where she majors in psychology)...

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