Word: employees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lucian Sprague took over the broken-down M. & St. L. in 1935, his desk was strewn with $424,000 in current bills, a $254,000 payroll was due in two weeks, $46,000,000 worth of bonds had been in default since 1922-and there was only $103,000...
Henry Ford, 80, still brimming confidence, announced that at war's end he will take up the option Ford Motor Co. holds on the Government-owned Willow Run plant and build there huge multiple-engined, cargo-passenger airplanes "of unique design." The company discreetly hinted that Employe Charles A...
> Wages for a "41-hour" work day for a single employe; transport charges for taking an employe's wife to a maternity ward; $1.39 for shipping another employe's dog.
Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker $1.28).
Ben Greenfield got his start 27 years ago in a $5-a-week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after...