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...Editor William Allen White last week suggested an "interesting game." He offered a book prize for the best list of ten Emporians most likely to be hanged to Commercial Street lampposts should Nazis capture the town. First entries came from an electrical-appliance dealer and a Santa Fe railway switchman. Like Abou ben Adhem, Editor White headed their lists...
...which cost as much as $15,000 a week, Wheeling Steel gets a lot of air advertising for a little. The orchestra men are unionized and get $38 a week each. The other regulars are considered 'amateurs." The veteran Singing Millmen, one a steel-plate "shearman," another a switchman, get $20 each over their regular weekly wage. The hotcha Steele Sisters, a blondy little trio, all 18-year-old high-school girls with relatives in the company, each get $10 a broadcast. Average cost per week for the whole program is about $3,500, $2,500 of this...
Back in Minneapolis, the Maharanee's family received news of the marriage with mixed emotions. Her father, a 64-year-old retired railroad switchman who gets along on a $30-a-month pension, was proud of the way Peggy was getting ahead in the world. But her brother Edward, a WPA worker, could not see it that way. "It's his race," he snapped. "I don't like...
...year Surveyor Hulbert sank his first shaft, last week's Saunders Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...
...Francisco, Switchman Alex J. Haskins sued and won $25,000 from Southern Pacific Railroad because, when he jumped into a patch of umbrella plant as a train approached, the plant sucked in one of his legs, toppled him under the train...