Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just ten months ago, a shrewd labor lawyer named Edward Lamb won a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...
...East Lansing, Mich, is a little community called Fertile Valley. It is so called not for its rich orchards or ripe vineyards (it hasn't any) but for its big crop of babies. (Latest count: 800, with 288 on the way.) Fertile Valley is Michigan State College's "vet village," a collection of apartments, trailers and prefabs that is as squat and ugly as dozens of other emergency campus camps from the state of Washington to Florida...
Last week, as Michigan State began its spring quarter, 150 more families had moved into the Valley to join the 2,000 young couples already there. Each new wife was promptly visited by a delegate from the "Spartan Wives," a sort of feminine union dedicated to proving that not all the education at East Lansing goes on in the classrooms. The Spartan Wives knew that sooner or later a new wife would get acquainted, usually at a community service building ("That's where the water, laundry and toilets are -where you meet all your friends"). But they...
...University of Michigan, the pro-capitalists gave leftists a lesson in infiltration. The university had approved a petition for a campus Karl Marx society. At the first meeting, the 25 Marxist petitioners were delighted by a turnout of 150. But when it came time for elections, a solid wedge of the new recruits-conservatives from the School of Business Administration-put up their own slate. Explained new President Elmer Faust: "We Business Administration students are very interested in Marxism...
...Hubbs collected his first "Mollies" in 1930, and was puzzled because he did not find a single male. He brought the females back to his aquarium in Michigan, watched them narrowly, discovered that they were Amazons.* Among the Molliensia formosa, there are no males at all. Their offspring (conceived internally) are all female. When Molly requires a male, she borrows him from a related species...