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...five-day forty-hour working week...
Full Week. Customers of New York Stock Exchange houses, particularly those trying to trade from the Pacific Coast, clamored against the recent five-day trading weeks and last week's four-hour trading days. The Western traders, being hours away from Manhattan, lost precious time for making, and losing, money. Manhattan operators lost commissions. That was one factor that induced the Exchange to resume full day & week trading. Another was that trading last week was lighter than in a very long time. And another factor was that Wall Street bookkeepers had in a measure caught up with their day...
Eight Harvard men, students in Naval Science 2, will leave tomorrow on a five-day cruise on the battleship Utah, which is sailing to Rockland, Maine, for her engineering trials...
...Five-Day Week. From 1776 to 1835, the U. S. workday was 12 to 14 hours. Between 1840 and 1870, it was ten hours. By 1918, it had been lowered to eight hours. The next objective of the A. F. of L. is to reduce the U. S. working week to five days...
...plane is a Curtis Travelair 0xx6, a more powerful machine than the one formerly in the possession of the Club. It was purchased at Wichita, Kansas, and flown to Boston by A. N. Pabst 3L. and M. N. Fairbank '28 in a successful five-day trip, in which the only mishap was a forced landing at Troy, N. Y., caused by a small leak in the fuel tank...