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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still snarled at week's end were Allis-Chalmers, near Milwaukee, twoscore other smaller plants with defense contracts. Best news for the board was settlement of the strike delaying experimental work at Wright Field, the end of the Harvill Aircraft Die Casting Corp. strike, which was threatening the continued flow of airplane parts to West Coast aircraft manufacturers, and an end of the strike at Aluminum Co.'s plant at Edgewater, N. J., manufacturers of all-important aluminum sheeting, tubes and rivets...
...deaths in 46 crashes. From last July 1 to Dec. 1, there were 85 deaths; in January, 19; in February, 28. The rate was rising. And, said General Dargue with sad certainty, it would continue to rise: the country could expect as many as 150 more young men to die in Army crashes by June...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week ended its season with a performance of Wagner's Die Götterdämmerung, in which even Brünnhilde's horse joined in the singing, with off-pitch whinnies. For Manhattan can take grand opera for only 16 weeks at a time...
...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...
Perhaps we had better start a Dr. Kildare series, or Blondie with free kitchenware at matinees; or should we die quietly and gracefully, admitting that the theatre has; no place in an institution of higher learning as President-emeritus Lowell so kindly intimated? John Holabird...