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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books, the Vultee Corp. can hardly be said to be struggling with its back to the budget wall in its altruistic and purely patriotic effort to save the world from Nazism. And the wage increase requested by the union appears modest indeed when the wage scales of other automotive and aircraft plants, are compared with the prevailing rates at Downey, Cal. In short, the C.I.O. strike is a justifiable attempt by the working man to better his living standard...
...sparrows; the New Deal; Pulitzer Prize awards; interior decorating. Disapproving of a mantelpiece in a house where he was a weekend guest, Roberts has been known, Friend Ben Ames Williams insists, to tear it out "with the aid of no levers, saws, axes, or any other tools or implements save his own simple teeth...
...menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats, and numerous zoo animals, Germany last week added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food (TIME, July 15). A new law, effective Jan. 1, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalized as meat. After being inspected for trichina, their carcasses will be dressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers...
...being asked, then, to go to war to preserve our foreign markets. This is a classic definition of imperialism; now it is called a crusade to save democracy. But suppose we do go to war, and at the cost of millions of lives regain our foreign markets? We can't go on exporting machines forever--the time will come when our customers have enough, and will want to start selling them back. England found this out before the First World War. Moreover, policing the world market which we want to exploit will be costly. We will fight war after...
...there a tragic irony about going to war to save our markets, when within our own borders live forty million people who are cold, hungry, and without hope? These are our market; here is our destiny. An America prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free. To harness America's productive might for constructive ends is a colossal task. It means, in the broad sense of the word, revolution. But it is neither easy nor good nor lasting to throw millions of men into a hopeless struggle that will be repeated over and over, faster and faster...