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Because Meade was a closed-shop job, workers had been forced to join either the A. F. of L. carpenters' union or laborers' union. At the peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys...
Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
...group of bright young men and women, gives them about $2,500 apiece to be free for a year to write a novel, paint a picture, examine a star. The number of its fellowships depends on the fund's income (one of its chief investments: copper). Their peak: 86 in 1929. Last week the Foundation climbed back almost to the 1929 peak, awarded 85 fellowships. Noteworthy was the fact that 14 fellows are to work in Latin America, that one is a scientist doing important work on U. S. defense. Some awards...
...City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...
...Terry" Moore will recapture Minya Konka, third highest peak climbed by man, in an illustrated lecture to be given before an open meeting of the Mountaineering Club at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Lowell House Common Room...