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...hungry millions gather in the fourth Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at Atlantic City's lush Traymore Hotel. To soften the contrast between the locale and the subject of their discussions, UNRRA officials announced that the delegates would have to double up in $16.50-a-day rooms, would be served "austerity" meals. Two crucial issues would come up at the meeting...
Michael J. Quill, belligerent, Communist-line boss of the disaffected, 110,000-member Transport Workers' Union, C.I.O., boomed his demands for a $2-a-day raise and exclusive bargaining rights for all the city's 32,000 transit workers. One point he made very clear: his civic responsibilities (as City Councilman from The Bronx) would not soften his determination to win. Another point that frightened New York City even more: Mike Quill insisted on his answer by Tuesday midnight of this week. It was an ultimatum...
Born Yesterday brings Brock to Washington, where he has bought a Senator, to try to grab off junk yards all over the postwar world. He installs himself, his henchman and his dumb blonde mistress in a fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like...
Quill thanked the Mayor, then got ready to pummel him some more. He called for a flat $2-a-day raise for all his workers on New York City's transportation system, which has been losing $40,000,000 a year. Wryly, the Times commented that perhaps here was the ideal case to apply the C.I.O.'s "ability-to-pay" principle...
...first generation's Henry Ford had gambled on the $5-a-day wage and his industrial genius to land him atop the auto heap. Now, the third generation's Henry Ford II was taking another gigantic risk. The stakes were just as big. Young Henry hoped to put the company once more on top-or lose his shirt trying...