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Nearly two years before French workers won the 40-hr. week under Socialist Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what...
...Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...
...plane was flown from San Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
...Round-trip fare: $180. Both planes are four-motored flying boats with similar speed and weight, but the Pan American Bermuda Clipper carries 28 passengers to the Imperial Cavalier's 16. The run takes 5 ½ hr. The Clipper leaves Long Island every Thursday, returns Sunday. The Cavalier leaves Long Island Saturday, returns Wednesday. Airmail is carried from Bermuda in the Cavalier. No airmail can be carried to Bermuda because the U. S. Post Office has not awarded a contract...
...Francisco, but fog shut in, the flyers grew exhausted, and finally they turned back from Eugene, Ore., landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash. Bewhiskered, red-eyed and tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while the world applauded...