Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 21, says Briggs and Motor Products "have one thing in common: labor trouble...
...variance with statements of the militant United Automobile Workers of America, now on the warpath to organize the motor industry and concentrating on just such key plants as Briggs. U. A. W. claim there were 51 "sit-downs" in 50 days at one Briggs plant, the last occurring Dec...
...Labor Relations Board on charges of interfering with its employes' right to organize. Most important, C. I. O. was preparing a frontal attack on the automobile industry, whose parts-making supply bases the United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers continued last week to harry (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante}. To great General Motors Corp., world's biggest automobile manufacturers' Leader Lewis delivered an "ultimatum" demanding U. A. W. recognition and collective bargaining, on threat of strike...
...recognition is dubious or impossible. Medical societies have been shown photographs of faces completely altered by plastic surgery. Year ago Dr. Carleton Simon, Manhattan criminologist, proposed an identification system based on the pattern of blood vessels in the eye, which is never the same in any two individuals (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). A malefactor would not be able to beat this system, Dr. Simon pointed out, unless he blinded himself. Last week two Iowa State University psychologists suggested yet another system, not infallible but good in the majority of cases, which a criminal could not beat unless he decapitated himself...
Though their party was mainly slapstick, the Guild had earned it by more than a year of hard work. In that time they had gone a long way towards restoring the Metropolitan's prestige to what it was in pre-Depression years. The season beginning Dec. 21 may well end without a deficit. Those who celebrated last week* could remember the end of an era in Manhattan opera. To them belonged much of the credit for the beginning...