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Alex McGarvey, a molder at Canadian General Electric's Davenport works in Toronto, did some union business on company time one day in 1949, over his foreman's objections. When the company suspended him for a week, McGarvey's fellow unionists in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (Independent) retaliated with a 2½day work stoppage. Last week an arbitration board ruled that the union had violated its contract, and must pay the company $9,208.40 for losses suffered...
High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking. Carl (Champion) Foreman's screenplay is lean and muscular, and as noteworthy for its silences as for its sounds. And Fred (The Men) Zinnemann's direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout...
...Foreman Amberger was talking about the $82 million Trans Mountain Pipe Line now being driven through the Rocky Mountains to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast. For 700 miles, from Edmonton west to Vancouver, the pipeline will follow the famed Yellowhead Pass route through the mountains, where the Canadian National Railways line was built 40 years ago, at a cost of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. The C.N.R. still ranks as one of the great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains...
Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...
Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...