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> 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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: False Teeth & Prerogatives | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Responsibility | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Married. Robert Benchley Jr., 24, Norden (bombsight) employe, younger son of the humorist; and Elizabeth Dickinson, 23, socialite social worker; in Detroit. Like his father (and brother Nathaniel), he is an ex-president of Harvard's Lampoon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: A Hat Is a Hat Is a ... | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

In the shadow of giant Henry Kaiser's three Columbia River shipyards, the small Albina Engine & Machine Works of Portland has turned out 38 sub-chasers, won three "E" pennants, chopped down absenteeism, kept its 4,500 workers happy. Its secret: slick showmanship in employe relations. Samples:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Albina's Al | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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