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Steel. The foremost U. S. industry, Steel, offered a 40-hour week and minimum pay ranging from $10 in the South to $16 in the North and West. Collective bargaining was provided by means of company unions set up for that purpose-an "open shop" provision which the American Federation of Labor threatened to fight. Steel prices were to be based on new regional quotations instead of the old "Pittsburgh plus" system. Simultaneously eleven steel companies headed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Carnegie announced a 15% wage increase at once for about 100,000 workers. Soft Coal. This code...
...Porter was one of the foremost authorities on mediaeval architecture and served in the French ministry of instruction and Fine Arts in 1918 and 1919. In addition to membership in many foreign societies he also belonged to the Mediaeval Academy of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Irish Society of Antiquities. His most prominent books was "Mediaeval Architecture...
...nearest-yet imitation of human vision appeared at Chicago last week when Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Victor Co., one of the nation's foremost practical physicists, presented his iconoscope to the Institute of Radio Engineers. The iconoscope or "image observer" is for television use when John Citizen can afford that diversion...
Generally accredited as the nation's foremost investigator of pituitary hormones and functions is Dr. Herbert McLean Evans. 50. big. shy, ever-investigating professor of biology in the University of California and director of its Institute of Experimental Biology at Berkeley. Professor Evans was the first deliberately to make giants by injecting normal animals with pituitary growth hormones. He was also first to discover Vitamin E, which is necessary for reproduction in higher animals. The past year he has been laboring, with no letup, at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. This week he and Mrs. Evans left Manhattan...
...that cinemaddicts derive a pleasant reassurance from detecting-in persons with whom they can identify themselves-noble motives for bad deeds. The fact that it is completely insincere does not imply that it was inefficiently written, by Anita Loos, directed, by Sam Wood, or acted, by Hollywood's foremost specialists in sex. It contains a few definitely first-rate shots-such as the one of Eddie, when he gets back from jail for the first time, jumping out of a taxi and glancing up to the windows of his apartment to see if anyone is there...