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...Automobile Workers of America. Led by Bookkeeper Muriel Jenkins the U. A. W.'s office workers last week presented formal demands to the U. A. W. management. Like the good unionists they are, the office workers wanted such things as the closed shop, vacations with pay, a 35-hr, week, time & one-half for overtime, seniority rights, better lighting equipment, clean restrooms, a $25-per-week minimum wage and a signed contract...
...annual Chicago to Mackinac Island, Mich, yacht race, longest (331 mi.) fresh-water race in the world; for the second year in a row, after weathering a 60 m.p.h. gale which Rubinkam described as worse than anything he had ever experienced on the Atlantic; in elapsed time of 62 hr...
...transports will be "stratosphere" ships (air-conditioned for passengers up to 20,000 ft.) for Pan American, designed to embody high flight principles worked out by Pan American research with Boeing engineers since 1929. The next six, for TWA, may be similarly adapted for high altitudes if the 500-hr. test flying required by Pan American on its ships is satisfactory...
Syria. Pilot Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...even more damage after flying has started than when crawling. Last week Watson Davis, reporting for Science Service, told how some curious person had marked a squadron of 'hoppers with luminous paint, to see how fast the crawling horde was moving. Speed: 2-3 mi. in 8 hr...