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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's basic labor law-called the Wartime Labor Relations Regulations-is the counterpart of the U.S. Wagner Act, but goes farther and is much tougher. It requires employers to bargain collectively with their employes, forbids firing for union activity. But it also prohibits unions from forcing workers into joining, from promoting or engaging in slowdowns, from conducting union campaigns during working hours. And unlike the Wagner Act, it lays down a rigid procedure for handling all labor disputes...
...Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled-eggs number is fine, his smiling pilot still better. Hail, Caesar...
...betatron has smashed nearly every type of atom to smithereens. The other great atom-smasher, the cyclotron, is used to shoot high-velocity particles at atoms. The betatron shoots pure energy in the form of X rays. When the X rays hit the nucleus of an atom, they act something like a red-hot poker thrust into a glass of almost-boiling water. The added energy entering the nucleus causes some of its particles to "boil off" like steam. To celebrate their triumph, the G.E. scientists were already busy last week building more & more powerful smashers...
...advanced enrollees only, a 65-cent-a-day garrison ration will be paid, an "officer-type" uniform will be supplied with overcoat and shoes, and exemption from the provisions of the Selective Service Act will be guaranteed...
...homecoming of Lieutenant Brett Charles, a colored infantry officer and the most decorated member of his small community in the Deep South, calls forth the souls of each type introduced in the first act, but dynamic conflict of reason with intuition appears in only one person. Alice Langdon, the Senator's oldest daughter whose noblesse oblige gets Brett a college education, hysterically succumbs to her father's feeling of white aristocracy when Nevvy, her younger sister, reveals an honest love for Brett...