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Negotiators in the soft-coal tie-up still wrangled. Northern coal operators were ready to grant union demands for a $1-a-day increase in wages (to $7). Southern operators, who have long enjoyed a wage differential and were now being asked to boost wages from $5.60 to $7, were not so willing. But Conciliator John R. Steelman was still brightly confident of an early settlement...
Last week earnest Mr. Reuther announced that his 500-a-day figure was only his yardstick of Detroit's potential capacity, that the automotive industry could as well make an imposing (but lesser) number of two-and four-motored bombers...
Despite the Mayor's pleas, last spring Dr. Goldwater, hoping to get out of his commissioner's job, took another, as head of New York's Associated Hospital Service (3?-a-day plan). Until the Mayor could find someone to take his place, he continued to pinch-hit as hospital commissioner. Last week he was finally able to resign, for the Mayor had persuaded 48-year-old Willard Cole Rappleye, dean of Columbia's medical and dental schools, to fill in for the 15 months of the Mayor's unexpired term. Gentle, white-haired...
...companion to its German-originated Buna-Butyl. He told his stockholders: "We are in a position to manufacture the 'butyl' rubber from petroleum in any required quantities as rapidly as the necessary plant facilities can be installed." Building now at Baton Rouge is a 10,000 Ib.-a-day Buna plant for Standard, from whom Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has already obtained a manufacturing license...
...day when Denmark awoke last week to find scuttle-helmeted Nazi infantrymen patroling its streets the U. S. awoke minus a $500,000-a-day export trade. Choking off the seaborne trade of the three Scandinavians as the U. S. S. R. had already choked the commerce of Good Customer Finland, Adolf Hitler had over night cut more than 5% from U. S. export trade, nearly 4% from her imports...