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...9/25/55-Nothing new, just Sunday. Didn't see or hear a thing at all yesterday. Just think it's 0700 and that only makes it 150 hr. from the time I put the T-cart down. It's just a matter of time till they find my body. It's been one week...
...already grossed more than $7,000,000-Director Wellman has apparently decided that when people go to the movies they want to kill time, no less than to live dangerously. In Blood Alley, he gives them plenty of chance to do both. The picture is not only long (1 hr. 55 min.), but also in a cheerful, stop-me-if-you've-heard-this way, it stirs up plenty of tarnation...
...Seven hours and 30 minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back in London in a record 6 hr. 17 min. The total elapsed time (14 hr. 21 min.) was no great shakes in these jet days, but Messrs. Hackett and Moneypenny could lay claim to be the first men ever to breakfast in London, lunch in New York and get back to London for dinner...
...T.W.A. (which recently led the move to cut transcontinental coach prices from $198 round trip to $160). T.W.A. wants to partition off the forward section of its Super G Constellations, load 19 coach passengers through a forward hatch, serve them no meals but give them the same fast, 8-hr, cross-country ride as first-class passengers. CAB will have to approve both price and partition...
...recent months, however, as German economic recovery has zoomed, labor's drive to cut the work week (from an average 48.7 hr.) has gathered momentum. Last week West German miners voted to strike, if necessary, for an eventual 40-hour week. Other key unions, e.g., steel and ironworkers, were expected to follow suit. Within five years, said D.G. Boss Walter Freitag, he hopes to convince employers throughout West Germany that weekends are wonderful indeed...