Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five months ago began the onslaught of insurgent Labor upon Motors and Steel. Corporation by corporation John L. Lewis' organizing drive captured positions in these two great open-shop industries. By last week it had gained about two-thirds of Motors, better than half of Steel. Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both...
...gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...
...large enough. There can be no rain until next January, seven months. The relief fund would mean trying to keep 1,500,000 people alive that length of time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot...
...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
Abolition of the luxury tax on theatre tickets, more WPA, establishment of modern auditoria from coast to coast to accommodate better road shows, a revolving fund for producers, more summer theatres, free seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which came in for far greater attention than any other and was worried over, snarled at, solved and despaired of by much the most important people at the convention was, of course, HOLLYWOOD...