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...about 30,000 miners portal-to-portal pay, an overall increase of three dollars a day (from $45.50 for a five-day week to $63.50 for a six-day week). The increase was worked out by a maze of formulas TIME, August 2, 1943 which does not touch the basic hourly rate and therefore permits Lewis to argue that the contract does not violate the Little Steel formula...
...taken on the Orpheum Circuit. The following year she played with Duke Ellington and his early small band, the Washingtonians. Today she is one of Ellington's arrangers. But her mind keeps turning to oldtime sessions with the Kansas City greats: Benny Moten, Pete Johnson, Joe Turner, Count Basic. Mary Lou's special contribution was an unearthly swinging dirge which the boys called "zombie." It was musicians' music. Asked if she would try it on her Cafe Society audiences, she said: "They'd all go home...
Eligible for the program are all who passed the A-12 examination given last April and will not reach their eighteenth birthday until after August 15. Accepted trainees will be sent to specially designated Army colleges where they will take a prescribed basic ASTP course. The Army will provide tuition, housing, food, medical service, textbooks, and transportation to the school. Distinctive from other service training groups, members of the ASTRP will not be in uniform...
...ASTRP men who will probably have to take the 11 hours of military training and conditioning required in the regular ASTP course, announced Dr. Perkins. He added that the prescribed course will undoubtedly include English, Engineering Drawing, Mathematics, Physics, and the other sciences assigned in the Army basic...
...race will last through a basic minimum of four weeks, after which you get elected as soon as you look good enough...