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...squeeze, Paul McNutt will have to do some fancy juggling, make some tough decisions. Two facts affecting all the people emerged: dependency will soon be out as the sole reason for military deferment, many more women will have to go to work in war industry-perhaps enough to boost the total from the present...
...mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied net profits almost 20 times to roughly $1,500,000-a record...
...cancel the 6% freight-and 10% passenger-rate increases granted last spring. In Chicago this week the five operating Brotherhoods (trainmen, engineers, etc.) are expected to ask for a 10-15% increase in wages. The 15 non-operating Brotherhoods (signalmen, track workers, etc.) have already demanded a wage boost of 20? an hour, minimum pay 70? an hour. The proposed reduction in rates based on current traffic would reduce the railroads' gross income by $500 million per year; the wage increases, if granted in full, would add some $600 million to their payrolls in 1943. These two actions would...
...biggest health boost of any group in the U.S. population has been enjoyed in recent years by Negroes-and it still leaves Negroes far worse off than whites. That was the conclusion which could be read between the lines of a report made last week by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which in 15 years has spent $1,600,000 on Negro health...
...Pretty damn tough" was his term for a new WLB policy that: 1) practically bars more raises for workers who-under the Little Steel formula-got 15% increases to offset higher living costs; 2) entirely ends raises that might boost prices, hamper the war effort and lure workers from one job to another...