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...billion paint industry gets most of the credit for the drastic change in its market. By plugging new, easy-to-apply paints and labor-saving devices, it now sells 75% of its paint direct to householders, not to journeymen painters. And thanks to the high cost of painters, the industry is well on its way toward making every amateur an expert...
Successor to Darwin? Sexologist Wilfred C. Kinsey was not taken aback by the uproar. He had predicted three years ago that his book might sell a million copies (all royalties would go back into the project). Journeymen book reviewers took a quick look and promptly hailed Kinsey as one of the greatest scientists since Darwin. He appeared to have found that some 85% of U.S. men have premarital intercourse, nearly 70% have intercourse with prostitutes, between 30% and 45% have extra-marital intercourse and 37% have some kind of homosexual experience...
...days had arrived for journeymen of the columning trade: last week the heat had the boys talking to themselves, and writing about each other...
...apprentices were trained in the '305, so most journeymen now are older men who simply cannot do a hard day's work. (The average age of masons in Chicago is 58.) Builders agree that the productivity of most A.F.L. building-trades labor is only 50 to 60% of prewar. And there seemed to be little hope of much improvement...
Already in the bag were 20% raises for Amalgamated's 15,000 glove and neckwear workers, its 15,000 retail salesmen and journeymen tailors, and 25,000 laundry workers. Never, in all the negotiations, had it been necessary to dig up the unfortunate "relic." (Thirty-one-year-old Amalgamated has not had a general strike or lockout since 1921.) But the results were there...