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...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...
...progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats of 1 hr...
True it is that defunct Varney Speed Lines operated the first aerial extra-fare passenger service. Regular fare between Los Angeles and San Francisco was $18.95. Varney charged $25, refunded 10? a minute for every minute's delay over 1 hr. 58 min. flying time...
...Representatives were not certain that Recovery had drawn the political sting of Dr. Francis E. Townsend and his old-age pension plan until last election day. On Nov. 5, 48 hr. after the votes were in, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington announced that he would move at once to prosecute Dr. Townsend for walking out on a House investigating committee last spring (TIME, June 1, Dec. 14). Last week in Washington's Federal District Court the lanky old pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout...
...Ireland, the Cavalier's twin, the Caledonia, stripped of all fittings to make room for extra gas tanks, circled for hours over the sea to give Imperial personnel a taste of ocean flying, then droned off on a non-stop jump to Egypt in 13 hr...