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Because many people thought that the Taft-Hartley Law would be repealed this year a great number of labor suits were put off or not appealed from NLRB decisions. This backlog, including cases concerning the definition of legal picketing methods under the Act is already on the Court docket. And, sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to give a positive decision on Congressional legislation involving the Wages and Hours Law. So far, for example, the Jusices have refused to decide any appeal made on the Portal-to-Portal bill...
...Force, which had had to justify its choice in a series of congressional hearings (TIME, June 6 et seq.) had picked the B-36 as its No. 1 long-range bomber, and it had doubled its original order. Most of the company's $232.4 million military aircraft backlog is for the B-36 (current price: $4,700,000 apiece); military orders for the B-36 will keep Consolidated busy until...
...paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades" in the mining country. In the past twelve months, she said, the fund took in $90,891,905, but had to spend $14 million more than it took...
...latest outbreak of the South's hooded raiders. In Chicago, other agents dug into the murder of two bank messengers and plugged away at the Government's fraud case against Automaker Preston Tucker (TIME, June 20). The FBI was also relentlessly at work on a backlog of continuing cases, including the nation's only two unsolved-and long-forgotten-kidnapings.* They were seeking 1,367 fugitives and 2,462 armed-forces deserters as well...
Although the steel industry had been Gloomy Gussing for weeks as its production rate sagged and its backlog of orders thinned, first-half earnings for many companies were the best in history. U.S. Steel's $94 million net was up 76%, Bethlehem's $59.9 million a shade less than 100%. But Bethlehem's Chairman Eugene G. Grace, who first warned against slackening steel demand six months ago, now said: "We have been living on our accumulated fat ... and it is getting thin...