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...Ford predicted in an interview that, with expert assistance, he could produce 1,000 planes a day. Last week Mr. Ford asked the War Department to send him a typical Army airplane and somebody to explain it to him. This week a swift (370 m.p.h.), single-engined Curtiss P-4O was flown to Detroit, there to be gone over by Henry Ford's bright old eyes. If he puts his mind to it, Henry Ford probably can produce planes in quantity; he certainly can produce aircraft engines. This week he announced that Ford Motor Co. is going to turn...
...blame squarely back on Daladier's own round shoulders: he had run the country two years, he had run the war seven months-why was France unprepared? Daladier angrily countered that France was unprepared because of the crackpot mismanagement of his predecessors, the Front Populaire; because of their 4O-hour week, their love of defense tactics, their coddling of labor. He added that one more military disaster would force France to sue for a separate peace...
Next day Lord Stanhope appeared early at No. 10 Downing Street for a 4O-minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
Last winter Mary Norton and the Labor Committee set to work producing a new bill. Essentially milder than its original, it called for a 25?-an-hour minimum wage, a 44-hour maximum week, graded to a 4O?-an-hour minimum over the next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised...
...basic provisions of the old contract were retained-seniority, paid vacations, a basic $5 a day, a 4O-hour week with time-and-a-half for overtime. But instead of running for a full year, the new contract may be reopened on ten days' notice by either side, and if no agreement is reached within the next 20 days, the contract lapses. In effect, this means that U. S. Steel may, at any time, ask the union to accept a wage cut, and if the union does not accept, proceed to put the wage cut into effect. Under...