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...decline of 18.4% in unit labor cost, from an index of 112.8 in 1938 to an index of 92 in 1940. This drop in costs was slightly greater than this month's wage increase (the first since 1937). These are the sort of figures steelmen will have to bat down when they talk to Henderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freeze in Steel | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Louisville Colonels last year (but benched with a chipped heel bone a good part of the season), is considered one of the smartest shortstops in the game. Reiser (rhymes with geezer) Drought up from Brooklyn's Elmira farm last summer, can play infield or outfield, nor does his bat sleep in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball of 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Bart Harvey promises to be the outstanding Sophomore find on the squad. On the southern trip he led the regular hitters with a fat .357 batting average, smacking out five hits in 14 times at bat. His base blows included a double and a triple. In addition he showed up well in the field with 13 assists and one error for a .958 average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL NINE ENTRAINS FOR ARMY BATTLE | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

Bubbling Bob, better than ever, is the vehicle's only Hope, and keeps the show rolling with a laugh every minute on the minute. Known as the human bat, cannonball, and dynamo, he fights his way through cannibals, a gorilla, and a Crosby, but is not sugar-daddy enough to win marsh-mallow-momma Lamour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/9/1941 | See Source »

...stages of the painting, before its medicine was too strong to be dangerous, official pictures were allowed.) For three days the sand painters worked at their picture-a great circle of square-shouldered spirits interspersed with bright-hued corn, tobacco, squash and bean plants, a dragon fly and a bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charley and the Grandson | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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