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...tried to strike Douglas' plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo, demanding a blanket 9?-an-hour increase. Douglas offered 5?, and 13,000 El Segundo workers walked out. But at the main Santa Monica plant, Douglas' more experienced workers refused to let Local Union President Stan Decker stampede them, met to ballot on a strike. During the day, they had heard the plant loudspeaker repeat a telegram from Defense Secretary Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENT: Strikebound & Unbound | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...soot-blackened spires of the Old Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Edinburgh's Sixth | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1952 | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Faucet Bars. "Build-it-yourself" is already a booming business. Those who were quick to detect it have cashed in. Black & Decker, one of the first power toolmakers to go after the amateur market, has boosted sales from $17 million to $30 million in five years. Brooklyn's David E. Kennedy Inc. (Kentile), which advertises the fact that a housewife can install a new kitchen floor, is now the biggest U.S. seller of asphalt tiles. Sales of all such asphalt tiles have risen in a decade from about 90 million sq. ft. to an estimated 550 million, of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Do It Yourself | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Manhattan dockworkers, who have seen nearly everything in their day, gaped last week as the Cunard liner Parthia began unloading her cargo. Out of the hold swung three new red double-decker London motorbuses; their sides were plastered with ads for English cigarettes, cars and marmalade: their Dunlop "tyres" were heavy-treaded. And No. 11, the leader of the big reds, still bore her route markings: "BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, CHARING X (for Charing Cross), STRAND, ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL STREET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Big Red from Charing X | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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