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...began to play hob with its home yards. Already the U. S. has supplied Great Britain (directly and through neutrals) with 1,500,000 tons which it could spare. Henceforth U. S. shipping aid waits on construction. At present, besides 1,600,000 tons on the ways and under contract, there are approximately 4,900,000 tons of ships to be built under President Roosevelt's emergency program. These are to be built in yards which are themselves still abuilding. The fate of the Empire hung upon the productive capacity of the U. S.-on its shipyards as much...
...president of C. I. O. and boss of the majority of workers in the key industries of defense, who last week was negotiating for higher wages in steel; Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of United Mine Workers, who, with U. M. W. President John Lewis, was looking for a better contract in mines; George Meany, secretary-treasurer of A. F. of L., no lover of C. I. O.; and George McGregor Harrison, president of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, who has been a zealous worker for A. F. of L. C. I. O. harmony...
Last week Budd Wheel Co. (Detroit) celebrated the production of its 1,000,000th shell on a U. S. defense contract. Budd also told an enlightening little story of defense production. To retool the Budd plant, make the first 1,000,000 shells, took 15 months. Time allotted for the next 1,000,000: two months...
Explicitly included in the new contract is the understanding, which has been unofficial for years, that the College may at any time put students to work in the dining halls as a means of defraying part of their expenses...
...pros and cons of the proposition, which could be carried out on a basis of sponsorship by national or local advertisers, who in turn would contract for the programs through the business office of the IBS, were first discussed at a meeting of the executive board on March...