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...week's end were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
France and Italy no longer export vermouth to the U. S. Result: a tremendous boost to the U. S.'s infant vermouth industry. From a production of 164,747 gallons for the year ended June 30, 1937, domestic vermouth output has been trebled this year. With stocks approaching the vanishing point, Californians and New Yorkers have had a $2,000,000-a-year business dumped in their laps...
...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...
Borrowing a new stake, Jesse returned to the stockmarket. For six weeks he watched World War I boost Bethlehem Steel upward until he knew that it was ripe. The day after he climbed aboard it had jumped 45 points. He was hot. Within two years he bulled and beared himself into a profit of some...
...leaving behind warehouses full of equipment. Perhaps by the standards of modern warfare the booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than the entire Greek Army had when the war began. There were 80 field pieces, 55 anti...