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...tailored uniforms. The workers fared better. The 15 big non-operating unions (1,100,000 members) got 9-to 11?-an-hour raises, though they had been willing to take 8?. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had turned down 8? as inflationary; now he blandly approved an even higher pay boost. No one heard a murmur about inflation from Judge Vinson...
This will be preceded by a Chinese dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock and a "Gay Nineties" show presented by the Radcliffe Entertainment Unit, which has given shows to boost army morale in various camps around New England...
They were almost more angry about method than money. The Brotherhoods are the orderly conservatives of U.S. unionism, with a long tradition of protocol in wage negotiations. Their pleas for a wage boost had been shunted about for more than a year. They had spent 45 years building their framework of bargaining, only to have Franklin Roosevelt personally take over their troubles a day before they were to argue their case before their long-established National Mediation Board. To the three holdout unions (who made clear that they had only "postponed" their strike), this was "changing the rules...
...pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well, the Allies would fall to fighting among themselves, their power would disintegrate, and Hitler would return for the triumphant reconquest of Europe...
...controlled inflation." The Administration will probably permit a general wage increase of 6 or 7%, will then try to hold that line with some new bulwark. The new wages will add nearly $5,000,000,000 to the nation's payroll, will give the cost of living another boost by raising purchasing power and manufacturing costs (e.g., the Lewis raise will force coal prices up an estimated...