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Happy over a contract that virtually sewed up the whole motor industry, exultant over Mr. Ford's whole-hog capitulation, U.A.W. officials declared: "Agreement by the Ford Motor Co. to establish a union shop sets a pattern for the industry which, we believe, will be universally adopted before the end of another year...
...wildcat" Communist-run strike at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif, was scarcely broken when a C.I.O. union (of die casters) walked out of the Cleveland plant of Aluminum Co. of America. The move, following the pattern at Inglewood, was in defiance of a Mediation Board request to withhold strike action until the Board could intervene. Before the Board could even take its coat off, scarcely three hours after it had started to study the dispute, the Cleveland plant was strike-shut. And even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages...
...make a blowgun to how to tie a double bowline. It sold 250,000 copies in 50 years, still sells to this day. The U.S. woods are dotted with lean-tos built according to Dan Beard's plans; each spring kites modeled on Dan Beard's pattern sail over innumerable U.S. villages. Millions of rabbits have avoided without difficulty the contraptions, involving a notched stick and a box, which were supposed to be rabbit snares. Long before the Boy Scouts of America were formally organized, a generation of U.S. boys had studied The American Boys' Handy Book...
Wagner. "With Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue...
...being stepped up from seven to 15, advanced schools from eleven to 21. The Air Corps needed more mechanics, stepped its training goal up from 45,000 a year to 100,000. It also had to enlarge its training for bombardiers, gunners, navigators and observers to fit the new pattern...