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...year. They settled with Goodyear after a 53-day strike, and with Firestone after 24 days, for 6½?, just a little more than the companies offered in the first place. Workers who went on strike last month at Kennecott Copper for 25? an hour were settling for a nickel...
...Survivor. De Gasperi spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican library, filing index cards and acting as a receptionist. He stretched his $80-a-month salary by doing German translations at a nickel a page. Surreptitiously, he also kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats. When Mussolini fell, a small but well-organized Christian Party was ready. In December 1944 De Gasperi became Italy's Foreign Minister. A year later he was Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a new blue suit...
McKay deals out homilies and wit like a prestidigitator dealing out cards, with such quick ease that the worn edges make no difference. Item: "We shouldn't run down the Democrats. I never made a nickel in my life running down the opposition. When I was selling Chevrolets. I never said a word about Fords. Heck. I didn't even know they made 'em." Item: "Anybody who quarrels with a newspaper, a traffic cop or his wife is just plain crazy." Item: "My folks were all Democrats. I come from a long line of Democrats...
...Fair Deals. In its 929 pages the bill provides relief for millions of taxpayers in hundreds of special categories: e.g., certain working mothers, Christmas-tree growers, retired taxpayers. 65 and over, and recipients of income from stock dividends. Although most taxpayers will not get a nickel of relief from it this year, the groups that will are so numerous and varied that tax consultants should do a thriving business between now and April...
...well be elated over his big project. It can mean rapid development of a rich and virtually untapped area, with an inland water storage system on the continent second only to the Great Lakes. As rapidly as possible, smelters and refineries will be installed to process iron, steel, cobalt, nickel, manganese alloys and aluminum. With Alcoa out of the picture, another U.S. aluminum company. Reynolds Metals, came in. Reynolds will probably supply a third of the capital for the $270 million first stage of the project, scheduled for 1962, and eventually use a third of the power for aluminum refining...