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...turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Fast | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

When the new school year opened, batle was shortly resumed, but on a different front. A Massachusetts law was passed in October, 1939, limiting college waitresses, among other classifications, to an eight-hour working day instead of ten. Waitresses up to that time used to work as much as 12 hours a day. Harvard, in a quandary over how to solve the situation, thought the law could be skirted on the grounds that Harvard, being an educational institution, would not be affected by the law. True enough, the State Labor Relations Board ruled that Harvard did not come under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memories of Harvard-Union Arguments Aroused by Yale's Struggle With CIO | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

...Promise much to any people who will fight our enemies, but do not let deliveries interfere with our eight-hour day, our 40-hour week, or any other of our "social gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Mike Quill's demands included an increase in wages (present wages for drivers are 75? an hour to start, 81? after four years); a six-day week, eight-hour day (instead of the present 54-hour week); three weeks vacation with pay; other improvements and benefits. Mike based his demands (later reduced) on the company's earnings, which he claimed were plentiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Busmen's Holiday | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Walter Damrosch has seldom been regarded as a great interpreter of music, but he made good programs, played new music, helped along such composers as George Gershwin. A man of immense energy and many friends, Dr. Damrosch still puts in an eight-hour work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Dr. Damrosch | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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