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...lost in the bureaucratic maze of the Narkomindel (signifying that his tireless bouncing around London had displeased his superiors...
...doubt that confuses us, out of the Maze of Manuals and memos and regs, one though rings clear and keeps us hopping onward-some day we'll be real WAVES, yea, true breakers-ripples no longer...
...John Lewis had signed a contract with the Illinois operators which gives about 30,000 miners portal-to-portal pay, an overall increase of three dollars a day (from $45.50 for a five-day week to $63.50 for a six-day week). The increase was worked out by a maze of formulas TIME, August 2, 1943 which does not touch the basic hourly rate and therefore permits Lewis to argue that the contract does not violate the Little Steel formula...
...which trusts no one named John L. Lewis, promptly, warily set the hearing which will search out any basic wage increase lurking in the maze...
...northern New Jersey, OPA officials gave up trying to enforce the pleasure-driving ban; inspectors stopped snooping, stole away. Said one: "The maze of conflicting rulings from Washington and local ration boards has placed inspectors on the spot. I'm tired of being called a sneak and a Gestapo agent...