Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Floyd Bennett Field with Co-Pilot John S. Lambie in a twin-motored Lockheed Electra which once belonged to Harold S. Vanderbilt, he buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
...Court in Flushing, L. I. brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman of the Department of Markets trailed Driver Simon on a 16-hr. trip with only three brief stops from Long Island City to Pottsville, Pa. and back. Declaring that the law's prime purpose was to stop the practice, not punish the offender, Magistrate Marvin gave Driver Simon a suspended sentence...
...became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...
...usual, both sides had backed down from their original stiff demands-the operators for a 40-hour week with no increase in pay, the miners for a 30-hour week, $1,200 minimum pay per year, a two-week vacation with pay. With the 35-hr, week preserved, basic pay was raised 50? per day-to $6 in the North, $5.60 in the South-with increases of 55?to $1 per day for machine and piece work employes. Also for the first time, soft-coal miners were promised time-&-a-half pay for overtime...
...Some Chevrolet malcontents have also resorted to the "slow down" cutting production from 400 to 250 units per hr. by stopping work at regular intervals...