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...blue collar anger have combined and erupted in the crucible of Detroit. Determined to catch up with inflation, 400,000 G.M. workers are on strike. They demand that their hourly wages, which now average $4.05, be raised by 61.5¢ in the first year of a three-year contract (26?? of it in deferred cost-of-living allowances), and they want additional increases if strong inflation continues. They are also in revolt against the numbing prospect of spending all their years until old age on the assembly lines. The central issue is a demand for "30 and out": retirement...
...11°. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26?? at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2° at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year's expenditure for the British dole...
...excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26?? in the insurance rate on public dock property...
...output) has been placed under control of the Association. Curtailment plans seemed lost for good when long conferences in Manhattan broke down (TIME, Dec. 7). Last week, however, companies producing over 90% of the world's total supply agreed to a curtailment plan which takes 26??% of capacity as a basis. The agreement was informal, without binding strings. Many companies not previously involved in curtailment plans were said to have consented, including mines in South America, Rhodesia, Canada. Total world production is expected to run at about 75,000 tons a month during 1932, of which 60,000 tons will...
...April 26???Census Sunday in England. First census (1801) figures: 8,893,000. Last census...