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Early this week, back from vacation, the President suddenly summoned his congressional henchmen and told them to tear up all their scribblings and simply pass a measure empowering him to appoint a policy-making commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face...
...Olympics. Last week, fencing for the U. S. indoor title for the first time, she had won all her previous bouts with almost ridiculous ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied...
...Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry is not the amount of their pay or the length of their day, but the specter of sudden loss of work.'' With its stockholders' approval, William Wrigley Jr. Co. arranged to pay workers receiving $6,000 or less per year between 60% and 80% of their working wage during layoff periods. Unlike most labor insurance schemes this one called for no contributions from workers...
...steady, the recording line is practically straight. In the broadcasting station is a Hopkins "wattmeter receiver" with a fast chart to which is electrically transmitted the power station chart-record. The radio announcer says: "Those ready to vote, push the 'Present' button." Thousands of voters push. This sudden mass consumption of extra current causes the recording line on the power house and studio charts to veer almost at right angles, forming a needle-like peak. Since each push-button consumes a measured amount of current, the height of this peak can at once be translated into the approximate...
...difficulties, and in the last analysis accounting for them, is the fact that virtually overnight we are attempting to introduce revolutionary changes in the industrial mores of the country. Until last summer four out of five employees were working under individual bargaining. Now we are attempting to make a sudden shift to collective bargaining and joint relations. Neither capital nor labor is well-prepared to assume so suddenly the new responsibilities imposed on each side by the NRA. In most plants each side lacks experience in dealing with the other; each lacks men trained in collective bargaining. Employers...