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...always worked too, first as a delivery boy, later as a Western Union messenger. Though small, frail and sickly looking, he bicycled solemnly around the streets from 3 p.m. to 11, dutifully turning over his earnings to the family. Hyman was an earnest, bookish student, but his eight-hour job with Western Union did not help him get the best marks...
...daughters (Hilary, 4, born in Frankfurt, and Julia, 2, born in London), made the return trip to the U.S. last month by ship, "because we felt the children should get some sense of transition from country to country." The move from London to Beirut, Richardson explained, "was about an eight-hour plane ride. For nearly a year afterward, Hilary thought we were still in England, and kept asking when we were going to take the bus back to London...
...short, eight-hour period, some (at least 16 came to play pingpong, drink coffee and sing in Christian fellowship at one of our centers, and a few were innocently sightseeing) of these men did more to break down Japanese-American relations and to hinder the Gospel of Christ than years and years of constructive work, both diplomatic and spiritual, have done to build them up. The strife...
...Which, however, is not a Russian invention. May Day workers' celebrations began in Chicago in 1886, as a demonstration for the eight-hour day. The idea spread to Europe, first to the Socialists, then to the Communists...
...attention to the day-by-day exercises of the stock market, and he made some of his best business moves during the 1929 market crash. In 1947 he shocked the coal industry by settling directly with John L. Lewis for a 15?-an-hour pay raise and an eight-hour day. Hauled up before a congressional committee to explain, he gave two prime reasons: 1) he had observed, he said, that once the Government intervened in labor disputes, the unions generally got their demands anyway; and 2) the miners deserved an eight-hour day, and probably would be more productive...