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...Retail Sales. Despite the increase in prices, the actual purchasing power of the average factory worker increased by nearly 1% in May, after a four-month decline. This was due to an increase in the average work week from 39.4 hours to 39.8 hours. Consumer buying power was reflected in department store sales, which rose for the second week in a row and were up 3% over last year...
...Plymouth Meeting, Pa. not only ignored a community outcry for her scalp but also gave her a raise. The library got a $5,000 award from the Fund for the Republic. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Librarian Knowles's conviction, thus spared her a four-month jail stretch and $500 fine...
...Upmann cigars. After flunking out of the College of the City of New York, he went off to Colgate with money provided by his mother. In his senior year he got a "call" to be a preacher, and proud Mattie Powell rewarded him with $2,500 to make a four-month tour of Europe and Africa, including a chauffeur-driven trip through the Holy Land. In 1932 Powell's father had a nervous breakdown, and young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator...
That is how it went all during the four-month, ANTA-sponsored African tour of Herbie Mann's Jazz Octet. From Liberia to Uganda to his stop last week in the Sudan. Flutist Mann and his men played to a steady succession of sold-out houses, jammed with both European jazz enthusiasts and native tribesmen who recognize in Mann's percussive style the distant echoes of their own primitive jungle beat. To make the similarities more apparent, Mann incorporated a raft of native instruments into his group. And the octet learned from the natives as it went along...
...planters' hold was further loosened in 1945-46, when the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union organized the plantations and mills and conducted a successful 79-day strike. There was a four-month strike in 1958, and today Hawaiian growers pay the highest annual wage scale in the sugar world ($15.63 a day v. $3.80 in Puerto Rico). But there is a compensation: the union cooperates to eliminate unnecessary jobs through early retirement and even repatriation of late-arriving Filipino immigrants. Result: the Hawaiian sugar industry is close to being automated. Only 13,000 production workers...