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Other good news came from Pittsburgh. A strike threat in U.S. Steel was removed at last when the company signed a new contract giving C.I.O. workers a 10?-an-hour increase, following announcement of a 10? wage rise at both National Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel...
...most U.S. citizens, still not fully awake to the threat of Europe's war, the possibility of a bombing attack is as remote and unreal as an invasion from Mars. Yet military men know that such an attack might, become real. They also know that even a minor raid might cause catastrophic mass hysteria. Sixty minutes of hokum in an Orson Welles broadcast three years ago gave them a rough idea of what could happen...
...unobtrusive red brick building at 100 Pinckney Street, with its neatly black lettered sign "Pinckney Street Artists' Alliance," doesn't look like much of a threat to what is rightly called "the gallery racket." Yet here in a few small rooms is exhibited work that vies with any of the established galleries in excellence, and sells at prices thirty to fifty per cent lower. The dozen or so members of the Alliance operate on the theory that selling three pictures at $50 apiece is better than selling one at $150. Alexander Eliot, great-grandson of Harvard's President and himself...
...strike threat which had hung over Ford since C.I.O. determined to organize his plant had become a reality. One day last week, in the rolling mill at the main River Rouge plant, eight union men were fired. Promptly other union workers laid down their tools, ran through the mill shouting: "Strike!" Work stopped. About midnight, after leaders of C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers had asked to go into the plant to try to make peace, and Ford officials had said No, the union officially called a plantwide strike. Union men marched out through the gates, formed picket lines...
Early last week the South African and British column pushing up from Italian Somaliland approached Giggiga, 50 miles east of Harar. Its supply lines were then about 600 miles long, and were potentially threatened from the east by Italians garrisoning British Somaliland, which the Italians occupied last summer. The threat was removed at the strategic moment by a British naval force which appeared off Berbera, British Somaliland's capital and main port, one midnight, and landed men and machines in two places near the town. By 9:30 a.m. they had taken it. They pushed inland at once...