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...climate was all but unbearable. At Hassi Messaoud the first oil drilling teams labored in 120° to 130° temperatures and through sandstorms, often came off an eight-hour shift near collapse. At Edjelé, welders putting together oil storage tanks learned that simply to touch the metal of the tanks meant a bad burn. The combination of Saharan sand and heat wears out mechanical equipment with startling rapidity; at Edjelé the average life of a Dodge truck engine is 7,500 miles...
CLOSED-CIRCUIT TV will be used to sell U.S. surplus property to buyers in six big cities in October. Pentagon will sell $1.5 million in clothing, construction equipment and machine tools during eight-hour, $81,000, large-screen demonstration aimed at attracting more bidders than written descriptions...
Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa did his personal bit to uphold his union's reputation last week as he barked through an eight-hour sitting before Arkansas' John McClellan's labor rackets committee, chewed out a torrent of words that filled almost 400 pages of transcript. When he was finally excused. Boss Hoffa walked out of the hearings no more damaged-and not a whit nearer to respectability-than when he first sat down...
Ford's manifesto was the $5 wage for an eight-hour day. Says Bruckberger: "I consider that what Henry Ford accomplished on January 1, 1914 contributed far more to the emancipation of workers than the October Revolution of 1917." Though...
...concluded he had killed the captain and committed suicide. The officer arose unharmed. But next day when Quevedo went to García's funeral, the mourners turned into a mob chased him to the officers' club, besieged him with guns handed them by draftees. After an eight-hour battle, Quevedo staggered out, clothes aflame. He was shot down and his body was dragged through the streets. Six died that day, including two high-school students...