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Labor trouble at the popular rendezvous of local cafe society came to a head six weeks ago when employees struck for a 25 percent wage increase, a 48 hour week, and a vacation with pay. They went back to work two days later when representatives of employers and employees signed an agreement agreeing to submit the dispute to the State Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties...
...people, some 2,000 more than the number of U. S. soldiers killed in action in the World War. This year's safety campaign has thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest rate was for Class A motorists, those...
Doctors were amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
Reverting to college girls as the whistle blew for the second half, the cosmopolitan clotheshorse said she thought they were 60 percent badly dressed. Asked how she stood on saddle shoes, she parried "On both feet...
...percentages of men in the six scholastic groups rises steadily until groups five, the paradise of 23.2 percent of last year's student body, is reached...