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...Most widely known card game is rummy. Of all families interviewed, 49% play rummy, 45% solitaire, 44% contract bridge...
...President's Mediation Board, after long investigation, had stepped in with recommendations for settling the Puget Sound C.I.O. loggers' strike. Similar contract terms had already been accepted by nonstriking C.I.O. loggers in the Columbia River district. But the answer of O. M. ("Mickey") Orton, strike leader, was a violent denunciation of Board Chairman Clarence Dykstra and his terms as an "all-out, labor-busting and strikebreaking device." Philip Murray, in a cold rage, called Orton's statement "a most reprehensible lying defamation...
...Navy's newest battleship touched water last week. Twenty-three months after her keel was laid at Camden, N.J., four months ahead of contract schedule, the great hull of the U.S.S. South Dakota slid, smoking, down greased ways and smacked the Delaware River. In ordinary times, another year would pass before the hull became a ship with all her armor, engines, guns. Now the Navy hopes that New York Shipbuilding Corp. can have the South Dakota ready to commission next January...
Truman read him the passage. Would Hook go back to his A.F. of L. followers and recommend that they submit their demands ($1.15 instead of $1.12 an hour wages, double time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists...
...said that 4,000 of the British students would be trained in the same sort of civilian contract schools which give U.S. Air Corps cadets their primary training; 3,000 more would be sifted into the CAA's training schools for U.S. civilian fliers, and 1,000 of the 8,000 British students would be, not pilots, but navigators (whom Pan American Airways is to train at Miami). The question, "Does this program mean that all British pilots will henceforth be trained in the U.S.?," Mr. Stimson let a subordinate answer...