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...West's gold-mining towns of yore. Since most of the prospecting area is in the public domain, few have cashed in on leases or land sales. On top of that, uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters out and you have to drill around and start a new shaft. Then, after days of back...
...week in Kansas City, General Eisenhower answered questions posed by voters in the TV studio and from remote pickups on street corners. Another project will feature Harold Stassen and Republican governors, attacking and answering Candidate Stevenson on specific points of his campaign and record. Candidate Eisenhower put in an eight-hour day filming 40 spot announcements on such subjects as taxes, corruption and peace. Sample: Housewife-"They say I've never had it so "good, yet I've had to stop buying eggs and everything expensive." Eisenhower-"No wonder. You actually pay 100 different taxes on just...
Stalls & Tears. One by one, entries began dropping out as mechanical or physical fatigue overcame the cars or their drivers. At the eight-hour mark, the first Cunningham car dropped out with valve trouble; two hours later, for the same reason, the second was forced to quit. Owner-Driver Cunningham, along with Relief Driver Bill Spear, stuck it out in the third...
...members interviewed weren't sure just how rough the work was, however. When asked if he missed his eight-hour office day, Ralph Clark, who once worked in South Africa, remarked, "I've never known an eight-hour day; if I had, I wouldn't be where I am today...
Perelle spent $10,000 to put in an assembly line, and another $150 for a winch to pull it. Where Brill once used 2,300 men, on three shifts, to build ten buses, 700 men now turn out the same number in a single eight-hour shift. In 1950 Perelle cut the losses to $124,000, and rearmament brought along some $25 million in Government orders for buses and in subcontracts. Last week Perelle proudly reported that in 1951 Brill's sales rose 88%, to $23.6 million, and the company turned in a profit of $2.5 million after taxes...