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...course the Vultee strike is a serious matter at this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the union requesting a decent living wage; it is the selfish obstinacy of vested interests, guarding fat dividends and munificent executive salaries, by capitalizing upon the imperative character of the present national emergency. And the Vultee strike situation is merely symptomatic of the attitude of the interests and men who dominate...
...improve its position and increase the buying power of our laboring millions. When the position of labor is strengthened, increased vitality is given to the most sincere peace groups in the nation. When the buying power of the laboring man is increased, and the living standard raised, the most basic and constructive step is taken towards the prevention of home-grown communism or fascism-a step worth more than a thousand investigations by the F.B.I. or Martin Dies. A defense program used to defeat the efforts of the largest and truest group of defenders in the nation can be nothing...
...articles in the short time between issues available for research. At last I have found the answer-they just get them out of their heads! In TIME, Oct. 21, you state "Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle...
...Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent lull in strikes: union agreements in basic industries (coal, autos) have not yet expired. Next spring, promised Mr. Pressman, the fireworks will be resumed...
Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...