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...Another famed Sears athlete is Fred's hearty daughter Eleonora, former women's squash rackets champion, hiker (Providence to Boston in 9 hr. 53 min.), polo player, horse-show jumper, six times co-winner of the Women's National Doubles championship...
...world's endurance record was set in 1937 by legless Charles ("Zimmy") Zibelman of New York, who paddled down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan in 147 hr...
...last week's end, the U.S. War Labor Board announced that preliminary estimates for both war and nonwar industries indicated a total of 3,000 work stoppages, involving a loss of 4,565,000 man-days. On the basis of an 8-hr, day, U.S. man-hour losses would therefore be about 36,520,000. With the U.S. population roughly three times greater, U.S. man-hour losses due to strikes closely approximated Great Britain...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in London for "extraordinary heroism" on a bombing mission over France: Major Al Key, famed endurance flyer of 1935. (He and Brother Fred flew the "Ole Miss" for a record 653 hr. 34 min.) The Major flew his Flying Fortress straight at two enemy fighters, completed his mission, returned safely with a cannon-blasted ship...
...plan for establishing "full employment" for Detroit and all war industries. Claiming that absenteeism and labor discontent are largely due to the fact that many men are asked to work only in spurts, Walter Reuther proposes drastic remedies: 1) establishment of regulations that all war plants must provide 40-hr.-week employment now, and later a 48-hr, week, with full payment for overtime; 2) a national wage policy which will guarantee to all war plant employes who work less than 40 hours per week through no fault of their own the equivalent of 40-hr.-per-week...