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In his self-appointed task as an impartial factfinder in the steel strike. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell labored for a painstaking month" under a mountain of steel statistics. Last week, reversing his original plan to keep the statistics only for Administration use, Jim Mitchell decided to share them with...
The climate was all but unbearable. At Hassi Messaoud the first oil drilling teams labored in 120° to 130° temperatures and through sandstorms, often came off an eight-hour shift near collapse. At Edjelé, welders putting together oil storage tanks learned that simply to touch the metal...
Machine weavers at home spin off 35 ft. of ordinary cloth daily, while the Moriyamas labored all day to produce a scant 2 ft. of Kurume-gasuri. They took their new responsibilities seriously. In all of 1958 the pair made only 420 ft., which the government promised to buy. But...
IF there is a third world war," the U.S.'s late great General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold once observed, "its strategic center will be the North Pole." Last week, as the brief northern summer edged into Canada's high Arctic, Canada and the U.S. were busy pushing their...
Shaw's image of the romantic man, a soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility...