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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a-ton royalty on mined coal would have to be raised to 40?. The operators were not going to cough...
...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
...banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank has paid a dividend every year except in panic-stricken 1837 when dividends were banned by law. (It paid double the following year...
...bank built an elegant parlor for women, where they could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room with scissors, threaded needles, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soaps. This leisurely atmosphere paid off in accounts from prim matrons and black-bonneted dowagers. Women still flock to the bank's Victorian quarters with their paneling, candelabra and the fireplace whose log fire glows cheerily in winter...
...Escape. Crane's jobs included working briefly in a shipyard, on a newspaper, in a warehouse. In later years, he was a surprisingly able advertising copywriter, and seems to have enjoyed the work. He was paid only $25 or $35 a week, hesitated to ask for raises, and almost never got one. When he planned to run away from civilization to the family plantation on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies, he found that the plantation had been put up for sale...