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...organized labor, chafing under the price rises, had largely confined itself to demanding federal price controls. Last week's strikes (mostly small ones) were largely the result of demands and disputes which predated Korea. Example: the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors pulled a five-day "token" strike in the big Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were...
...Beverly Hills gallery last week, a traffic light and a pendulum railway-crossing signal stood guard at Warshaw's latest one-man show. Most of the 35 pictures, with such titles as Broken Figure and Traffic Signal and Bones on the Street, were focused on the drama of Los Angeles' traffic. Wrecked Automobiles was a low-keyed tangle of telescoped cars stretched along the canvas with the careful arrangement of an abstract still life by Braque. In others, blinking lights and warning barriers stood ironic watch over prone figures with the cleanly severed limbs of antique statues...
...full-blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...
...only 43,500 private shipyard workers were employed, compared to 75,000 last year, and 1,397,700 during the busiest days of World War II. Last month the shipbuilding industry received just one new order-a ferry for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...