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...raise, with another 10,000 steel-fabricating workers waiting on the outcome. In Windsor and Chatham 3,500 Chrysler Corp. workers struck last week for a $2-a-day raise. Some 6,000 General Motors workers may follow them out this week. To all unions, the 15? boost for the lumbermen was the minimum they wanted...
...once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language how & why the bomb was possible. Franklin Roosevelt acted. Result: the Manhattan Project (TIME, Aug. 15), the bomb, the 125,000 dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the biggest boost humanity has yet been given toward terminating its brief history of misery and grandeur...
Dark Spots. Detroit's automakers, still in low gear, turned out only 47,000 cars and trucks last week. This week, output should increase and next week jump, thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers...
...cheap. In its two socialist years Saskatchewan's budget (on revenue account) has soared from $30,000,000 to a proposed $40,000,000 for 1946-47, though it still boasts a small surplus. Revenues have gone up enough, thanks to good business conditions, to meet the budget boost. The trouble will come when business slackens...
...stoppage was part of a dizzy disruption caused by an OPA boost in grain ceilings early in May. On May 11, the Board of Trade stopped all trading in old futures contracts (i.e., promises to buy or sell grain at a future date) except at old ceilings...