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...away from cars and locomotives in Cleveland, Memphis, Kansas City, St. Paul. Chicago, the nation's greatest rail center, was stopped cold, like a three-ring circus halted in mid-show: 25,000 loaded freight cars stood dead on the tracks and 93,750 through passengers were marooned. Muskegon, Mich, felt the strike too: one 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars were tied up. It was the same at Fargo, N.D. (where the Great Northern's crack Empire Builder ground to a stop) and at high little towns on the mountain divisions and in the yards...
When he got a job at Manning, Maxwell & Moore, which operates plants in Bridgeport, Boston. Muskegon and Tulsa, he decided he would rove no more. The company was long on engineering skill, short on merchandising. Wason supplied the merchandising so effectively that sales increased 17-fold in the next ten years...
Ceiling Zero. In Muskegon, Mich., the local OPA, with no jurisdiction over commercial buildings, started searching for new offices when its landlord proposed to boost the rent from $175 to $600 a month...
Daisy Chain of Thought. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Vassar Class of '35 postponed its tenth reunion, sent out questionnaires instead. Sample queries : "Weight?" "Color of Hair?" "Wrinkles?" Out of the Red. In Woodstock, N.H., authorities gratefully accepted an unsolicited check for $1.20 from one L. Dewey of Muskegon, Mich., which wiped out the town's $1.19 debt...
...this came about because of one Anton Jankowski, a Herculean (6 ft. 2 in., 250 lb.) employe of Muskegon's (Mich.) Norge Division of Borg-Warner (plane parts, vacuum pumps, valves). Last November, the War Department ordered Norge to cut back production of gun mounts. This reduced the piecework earnings of its employes. The U.A.W.A.F. of L. promptly protested, but agreed to go along if the company would clamp down on Jankowski. The union had al ready expelled Jankowski for nonpayment of dues. Now the union claimed that his great strength enabled him to work too fast. Thereby...