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Half-Nelson. Contempt proceedings were begun against the union in Chicago (where the Government was preparing to demand $500,000-a-day fines), in Cleveland and in Washington. The President denounced the workers. But this time the railroaders seemed determined to keep their half-nelson on the country until it wheezed...
Green and Murray also thought that John L. Lewis, bitter foe of the Administration, was getting preferential treatment. Their evidence: last week the Government thawed out its wage freeze to permit Lewis' coal miners to get a $1.60-a-day raise under their new contract signed before the freeze deadline (a coal price boost of 25? to 90? a ton was also permitted). Lewis, said Green and Murray, was now one wage round ahead of the A.F.L. and C.I.O. But the stabilizers had a soothing answer to that. They were hard at work on a general wage thaw...
...physics of clouds this fall, although be still holds the most publicized rainmaking job in the country with the City of New York. He'll probably go down to New York several times to check on the current research project in weather control, although not at the $100-a-day salary he was given to send up an airplane to bomb the clouds with "rain needs...
...physics of clouds this fall, although be still holds the most publicized rainmaking job in the country with the City of New York. He'll probably go down to New York several times to check on the current research project in weather control, although not at the $100-a-day salary he was given to send up an airplane to bomb the clouds with "rain needs...
From her $61-a-day suite in San Francisco's plush-and-gilt Fairmont Hotel, Egypt's Queen Mother Nazli, newly dispossessed by son King Farouk because she approved her daughter's marriage to a non-Moslem, thought it over, announced: "Maybe I should...