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...biggest strike-the 55-day-old walkout at General Motors-there was a ray of hope. President Truman's factfinder recommended a 19½?-an-hour increase. The company promptly turned it down, but the union approved on the condition that G.M. accept by Jan. 21. This was the date of the new steel-strike deadline. If steel is settled by then (see below), G.M. and the auto workers might also get together...
Easy Pickings. In Milwaukee, Owen Murphy noticed that a Y.M.C.A. cafeteria marked its day-old slabs of pie with toothpicks and sold them at half-price, also spotted a thrifty diner who was toting his own supply of toothpicks...
...Army's shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army take over...
This mood had solid roots: many Americans wanted to see not year-old pictures of one gallant but pitifully meager raid, but fresh, day-old pictures of raid after raid that leveled Japan into a shambles where not an altar, not a paper house, not a cherry tree still stood whole, and where nothing moved in the ruins...
...rugged individualist George P. McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the President dispatched a final request for arbitration of a 77-day-old strike. George McNear sent back a wire that made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...