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Back in October, Congressman Lyle Boren of Oklahoma had introduced a resolution to get the House waiters a boost, but nothing had happened. Now they had decided on direct action...
...John Maynard Keynes, unorthodox economist, New Deal adviser and, more recently, director of the Bank of England. Once cholerically opposed by classical financiers, he can now, as Baron Keynes, boost his theories in the House of Lords...
...were up 64% on the Santa Fe, 42.5% on the Seaboard, 39% for the Atlantic Coast Line, only 22% for the New York Central. But practically all the carriers made good money for the first four months-though their wage increases were already in effect, their compensating freight-rate boost not until March 18. Combined profits of all Class I roads were $149,000,000-almost double last year's $76,299,000. In April, when last year's net was cut by the coal strike, the gain was even more dramatic: $57,900,000 for 1942, against...
...cowcatcher through picket lines, thus broke a strike. In his 1932 annual report he harped: "It is time that eight hours' work be given for eight hours' pay." Late in 1940 he started anew, demanded that the Brotherhoods revise their rules before he considered a 30% wage boost...
...between Aïdas and Carmens -will be performed in a seven weeks' row -the first cycle of native opera ever to be given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...