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...many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions. Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railroad, would like to put railroad employees on an eight-hour day, pay them for overtime as other industries do-and insist on an honest day's work. Says he: "It would be up to the railroads to schedule things so that there wouldn't be much deadheading. The burden would be on the railroads to use their...
...regulations currently enforced on the nation's railways smack of the days when passenger trains averaged 20 miles per hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent of the time...
...work on the mammoth task of allocating by class almost 3000 places at the Stadium. It should of course, make every effort to increase the efficiency with which it handles applications. But for the absent-minded who, memories beclouded by paper deadlines and tutorial appointments, miss the brief eight-hour interval on Wednesdays, student tickets should be available until game time, simply on presentation of bursar's card and coupon...
...many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen equivalent physical) in an eight-hour day, which is 10,000 times the dose that is fatal...
Heads nodded approvingly at the choice for Christ: 47-year-old Anton Preisinger, owner of the second largest hotel in town, who played the part in 1950 and was much praised for his combination of gentleness and physical endurance during 85 eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg...