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¶ In the South Carolina mills, where weavers, without organizing, had struck against new orders calling for increased production from each employe, strikers began to dribble back to their looms as stopwatches disappeared and efficiency experts' reports went into office trash-baskets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Damn Union | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Important, though seldom discussed, is the manufacturing ratio between a day's pay and a day's work. Last week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Production to Pay | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bomb | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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