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Experienced marketing specialists advocate permanent ceilings on manufactured milk products, carefully calculated so as to forestall any tendency of dairymen to cut production and shift to other kinds of farming. After that, the experts say, a rebuilding of milk prices can be undertaken...
Local No. 1's requirements proved stiffer than the army had expected. When the first 14 Negroes appeared at the pit, 100 miners on the night shift walked out but were urged back to work by the management. Subsequently the whole local refused to work as long as a single Negro was below ground. It was at that point that Mr. Robinson was called from Boston, arrived in Butte for a Sunday meeting held in the Fox Theater. Solemnly 1,700 miners listened to telegrams from Phil Murray, Paul McNutt, General Brehon Somervell. Solemnly they voted to stick...
...acute. Some war plants are so huge that it would take a worker his entire lunch period just to get to a central cafeteria and more than that to get out the gate; some production jobs are so hush-hush that workers are locked in for their entire shift. Nobody knows how many millions factory feeders gross annually, but it is a big regional business...
...Harvard men have seen the crews because hardy as the girls of Radcliffe are they dare not row into College territory, except in the early morning shift, when the feminiue earsmen sometimes venture as far as Weld boathouse...
Writing for the latest issue of "The New England Purchaser," William G. Morse '99, University Purchasing Agent, described Harvard's conversion to war service. Besides reciting the familiar list of service groups using University facilities, he pointed out the great administrative difficulties and changes occasioned by the shift in population...