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...said, "are still operating on a 40-hour week. By going on a 48-hour week, they could easily turn out more goods with the same work force." Some plants had already done so: among them, Bridgeport's Remington Arms Co., the five Ohio factories of Timken Roller Bearing Co. In Indianapolis, General Motors' Allison division canceled the vacations of 8,000 workers, paid them extra to speed its current orders for jet engines and tank transmissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wider Ripples | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

There are men who would be identified even on a roller coaster as Harvard professors. Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music, is not one of these. He is often to be seen on the roller coaster near Saunders-town, R. I., with a swarm of kids, and one would never suspect he was a ranking expert on the fugue...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Randall Thompson | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Chicago forewarned-when he arrived he hurried out, hustled his pretty wife back into the plane and did not reappear until he was smeared with lipstick from forehead to chin. At week's end both men still acted as though they had found themselves a runaway roller coaster-and loved the giddy sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Through the Looking Glass | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...first two cases in the series have just been released--Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics and The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory. Case three, Early Development of the Concept of Temperature and Heat, edited by Professor Duane Roller of Wabash College, will be published in a fortnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Publishes Science Histories | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Cadets tied it up in the seventh. Godin let a slow roller by Bob Blaik go past him and then passed Jim Stuff. The runners advanced when Godin pitched wide and then scored when Ted Lobe, league leading batter, singled...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: West Point Loses To Baseball Team On Steal, 5 to 4 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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