Word: omaha
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Widening Gap. Including fringe benefits, the average union construction worker now gets paid $5.91 an hour; in big cities he makes more. Philadelphia carpenters recently won a 23% pay increase, to $6.85 per hour, to be followed by a further 21% raise next year. Omaha roofers will get a 57% increase over the next two years, and Miami laborers will get a 70% boost over three years. The widening gap between wage rates in construction and manufacturing increases the chances of industrial strikes. Last year construction wage settlements were more than 31 times higher than those in oil, trucking...
...Belmont Stakes will be run on June 7th, 15 miles from New York City at Elmont, Long Island. Will Majestic Prince become the ninth winner of the Triple Crown Trophy, joining Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), and Citation (1948)? It seems unlikely, for Majestic Prince has been scratched from the race by his trainer John Longden. Longden said that he did this out of consideration for the horse. One tends to believe that it is Mr. Longden's reputation that is at stake...
...teams for the District I playoffs. Coach John J. Connelly, chairman of the selection committee, announced yesterday that Boston University and the University of Massachusetts will play each other at Amherst the weekend of May 31 for the right to represent New England in the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...locomotive as far as Kansas City, where a mammoth Union Pacific diesel took over for the long pull across the Rocky Mountains. U.P. President Ed Bailey arrived in a private car hitched to a passenger train, but some of his vice presidents chose a faster way. They arrived from Omaha for the ceremonies aboard one of the railroad's two Sabreliner executive jets...
...three weeks old, the team has already shown signs of sucess. In crucial wins over Boston University and Boston College, the Crimson, led by Bob Dorwart and Bill Kelly, have displayed the experience and aggressiveness which will give them the opportunity to improve on last year's showing in Omaha...