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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some $450 million in wages. Their $150 million welfare fund, drained by 15 months of foolish, freehanded spending, was all but exhausted and all payments had been stopped. For such mighty sacrifices the miners had gained back exactly nothing. Unable to crack...
Eliot House broke a $2,300 record held by Lowell House last night by pushing its charity drive total to $2,480.50 as the college totals reached...
...Yard total reached $6461.71; Apley, Claverly, and Dudley $842.50; and The Commuters Center...
...basic fault of "Alive and Kicking" is, not surprisingly, its material. In spite of the assistance of Milton Berle, Henry Morgan, and four other contributors to the sketches, there are no more than three or four genuinely funny moments all evening. The songs, written by a total of ten people, can be most charitably described as innocuous. Costumes and scenery are similarly undistinguished. Surely such weak efforts do not deserve a cast of 40 and a production costing thousands of dollars...
According to Gordon, this year's drive is still more than $2,000 ahead of last year's total at this time...