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...Union members must never lay hands to other men's jobs. Thus when a Rock Island train crew did its own switching at Haileyville, Okla., because the yardmen were off duty, the road's receiver had to pay 1) a full day's overtime to the road crew for each train switched, 2) a full day's pay to yardmen although they were not there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Airing for the Featherbeds | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Dunn's real argument against a 30-million-ton expansion: that it would rock the economy on its heels. He mentioned, in passing, that even a ten-million-ton horizontal expansion would not only cost $1,250,000,000 but would take at least two years and 4,160,000 tons of additional steel (including coal and iron mine development, hauling equipment, etc., as well as furnaces and rolling & finishing equipment). But the real drain, he said, would be on the labor supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Second Time Round | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...keeping with the verse choruses added by William M. Abrahams '41, Garrison Poetry prize winner, and the score composed by Leonard Bernstein '39, a former pupil of Serge Koussevitsky, Boston Symphony conductor, and director of the H.S.U.'s first dramatic production, Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. Presents Revamped Comedy; Aristophanes' 'Peace' Modernized | 5/22/1941 | See Source »

Leonard Bernstein, '39, director of the H.S.U. production "The Cradle Will Rock," has again created an original score which will be sung by a picked chorus from the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. The ancient Greek comedy which tickled the ribs of toga-clad Athenians centuries ago, has been rewritten by Nichols, Abrahams, and Bernstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. GIVE "PEACE" BY ARISTOPHANES | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...deserved. But there was a lot more, such as a mammy and four unclassifiable Civil War characters, billed as "The Defeated" and wheeled in on a float. Composer Britten's tunes ranged in inspiration from U.S. and British balladry to Social Satirist Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paul Bunyan | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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