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...string of French forts and outposts connected by a road called Route Coloniale No. 4 which winds between steep hills and dense forests. The French Foreign Legionnaires who man the forts say: "The Route Coloniale No. 4 is a road a man travels only once alive." In a bitter five-day battle fought with the Communists last week on Route No. 4, over 3,000 Foreign Legionnaires were trapped...
...seven-day work week or a 60-hour schedule. Whenever that happened in World War II, said N.I.C.B., "output increased [briefly]. Then, as fatigue accumulated, weekly output fell to levels existing before the change, or even below that." Added N.I.C.B.: the best standard in peace is a five-day, 40-hour week; in war, a six-day, 48-hour week...
...organized labor, chafing under the price rises, had largely confined itself to demanding federal price controls. Last week's strikes (mostly small ones) were largely the result of demands and disputes which predated Korea. Example: the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors pulled a five-day "token" strike in the big Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were...
...sheer quantity the mammoth bean dinner was the high spot of Boston's five-day Jubilee. The beans alone would have stretched from the Common to Central Park if placed bean to bean rather than gobbled by Boston citizenry. And from beans, the dinners gulped on to three tons of potato salad and to 12,000 oven-hot miniature pies. "The most historic event in centuries," said Mayor Hynes in an after-dinner speech...
...five-day, Boston Jubilee--a kind of mid-century pat on the back staged by the Chamber of Commerce--roars into motion tomorrow to the tune of church bells and fire sirens. The Thursday program will include honors for "industrial statesmen" of the nation...