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...chief organizer was slick, veteran Wyndham Mortimer, of United Automobile Workers. Just before a settlement was reached R. J. Thomas, president of the auto workers, carried to the strikers some strong words of advice from Murray and the Defense Commission's Sidney Hillman. The final terms raised the basic pay of workers from 50? to 62? an hour, provided for 16 months of operation at Vultee without strikes on the part of workers, or lockouts on the part of management. Employes lost twelve days' work, $203,240 in wages, gained an annual boost...
...seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
...publicity stunt, Safeway's refusal to go along on the increased markup was in line with a basic policy laid down by its industrious. 130-lb. president, Lingan Alan Warren. "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable," Warren once said. "That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing." It was also, as events turned out, insurance that Safeway need feel no qualms when Thurman Arnold's men get to Colorado...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, advocated sending American ship convoys to Ireland and suggested a basic revision of "our whole neutrality policy." He also stated that the United States could prevent Japan from entering the war by issuing a "flat and clear warning that we will fight if she attacks Singapore or the Dutch East Indies...