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...Moines' Iowa Packing Co., one H. Shapiro, a veteran who wanted to return as an 83f^-an-hour sausage stuffer instead of going back to his job as a 74^-an-hour check sealer, provided a test case for his union. After a four-day strike of 1,000 workers, the union won its demand that returning servicemen receive all promotions granted to colleagues in their absence...
...last summer, Mrs. Jane Kolodziej testified that her husband had threatened to kill her and their two sons, told a judge she thought he was insane. He was sent to a psychiatric ward. Then Mrs. Kolodziej decided she wanted him back again, announced that she had lied, staged a four-day sit-down strike at the hospital. Finally she won his release by signing a waiver on which she said: "I want him out even if he kills...
...best of Russia's ten best chess-masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...
Tentative plans for Princeton University's bicentennial celebration on October 22, 1946, were anounced recently in Princeton's Alumni Weekly. Conferences of scholars in various fields of the arts and sciences will culminate in a four-day observance of the anniversary October...
Meanwhile C. J. Potter, deputy Solid Fuels Administrator, predicted that war industries, including steel mills, would have to go on a four-day week unless the Army helped out. The Ickes solution: immediate furloughs for 30,000 experienced miners from the Army. The Army's answer: no. Now it was a problem for President Truman to solve...