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...chance to exploit the situation, though it meant hitting at the government. They called a strike on the government's most valuable farm, 11,000-acre Finca La Concepción, threatened walkouts on other federal farms. Last week, the government finally agreed to pay the demanded 80?-a-day minimum wage on Concepción and a few other farms. On most of the government's 126 farms, wages will remain the lowest in the country...
Mothers & Boy Scouts. The U.M.T. law provides that all males 18 years of age take six months of "basic military training," then spend the next 7½ years in the reserves. But technically, UMTers will not be in the regular services while taking basic. That is why the $50-a-day experts must report back to Congress in three months, after working out a special system of military justice, of death and disability benefits and similar safeguards for the boys. They must also provide against the possibility that Congress, beset by anxious mothers, will water down the training so much...
...streets to see the MacArthurs arrive. Glenn McCarthy had outdone himself. He had not only strung an electric sign "Welcome General Douglas MacArthur" across the facade of the Shamrock, but had provided artillerymen who fired a 17-gun salute when the general got to the hotel. A $250-a-day suite-provided with two butlers in red tail coats and green pants-was ready for the distinguished visitor...
...five days after his New York reception, General Douglas MacArthur stayed secluded in his ten-room, $130-a-day Waldorf-Astoria suite, but all the while his name-and the debate he set off-went on blooming steadily in black headlines...
...York City reservoirs runneth over and Wallace E. Howell is probably out of the $100-a-day...