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This week, after one continuous 21-hour session, both sides finally accepted a presidential fact-finding board's judgment. The unions got their 40-hour week and a 7?-an-hour wage boost. They lost their argument for extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. The settlement would add around $300 million to the cost of running the nation's railroads in 1949, but the board figured that the railroads could afford...
...raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas, clean water costs 50? a barrel...
...Phillips Brooks House sponsored settlement house basketball teams split decisions with their New Haven counterparts at Yale last Saturday...
...members of this year's ill-fated basketball team, Jack Richards and Walt McCurdy, have a chance to get back at the Blue this evening in New Haven when their charges, the champions of the Boston Inter-Settlement Basketball League, meet the best New Haven YMCA teams, sponsored by the Yale Christian Association...
Goldblum also revealed that negotiations with HWF "are still in the infant stage. But we shall try as long as possible to reach a reasonable and peaceful settlement...