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Tall (6 ft. 3), hulking (250 Ib.) Reese Taylor, chief of WPB's Iron & Steel Branch finally got fed up. He had joined WPB late in May with high hopes: though steel allocation was a mess, he figured he could make sense of it, and he thought that his title carried enough authority to make his rulings stick. He went to work ably and thoroughly to find out where steel was going, why there wasn't enough. But forthright Reese Taylor reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew...
...flanges. We work on an average of 15 hours per day, seven days a week. I am 60 years old and my assistant is 79. He handles all flanges from 12-in. down, and I take them from 14 up to 30. Some of the castings weigh 365 Ib. We feel that owing to our age and the amount of work we are doing we are entitled to a pennant...
Born. To Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 35, and ex-Colonel Charles Augustus, 40: their fifth child, fourth son; weight, 9 Ib.; at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Their other living children are: Jon Morrow, 10 (born six months after the kidnap-slaying of two-year-old Charles Augustus Jr.); Land Morrow, 5; Anne Spencer...
Thus wages are the simplest and almost the only practicable way of solving the copper crisis now. If copper wages are raised much OPA will have to do some new figuring on copper prices, for at 12? a Ib. the big companies are already producing some 30% of their copper at a loss (on the OPA theory that they can afford to average the loss out against their lower cost output). Even a 10?-an-hour raise would cost $7,000,000 a year-small pickings compared with the $250,000,000 the Government is paying for domestic copper...
...Wichita, Kans., two ambitious boys sold a filling-station attendant a rubber garden hose loaded with lead, received the rubber-salvage price of 1? per Ib. for their weighted goods. Their salvage price for lead itself would have been 5? per Ib...