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...demands came clear. He wanted, first of all, a 40-hour instead of the present 54-hour week, with no reduction in pay. He also wanted the work week to begin on Monday. Since some operators do not open their mines until Tuesday, miners on the Tuesday-Saturday shift would automatically get time and one-half for Saturday...
...getting rid of such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...
...young lieutenant on his first assignment." But when, in 1933, approaching a colonel's retirement age, he was ordered to leave his regiment and become Senior Instructor of the Illinois National Guard, he dashed off a letter to Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, pleading that such a shift would be "fatal to his future." MacArthur was adamant, and for months Author Marshall watched her husband go about his new duties with "a grey, drawn look." When Colonel Marshall's generalcy came through in 1936, husband and wife sat staring at each other, speechless...
Earlier in the day, Harlow moved Bill Jackson, one of five Varsity tailbacks, to the quarterback post, and Jackson ran with the Crimson first team. The shift was an insurance measure, since Goethals, while expected to be ready for Yale, may not be at topflight effectiveness...
...morning after the storm, many a Democrat struggled out of his Mae West and decided that something might be built out of such fine wreckage before 1948. Some tried to deny that there had been a Republican flood at all - just a heavy dew - cried that a small shift in the vote would have made all the difference. But Republicans, who had been saying the same things themselves for 14 long years, were confident that the salvage job would be a lot harder than it looked. They had been there...