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...contract. Differences narrowed down to union demands for a 10? wage boost and a closed shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good sign was G.M.'s prompt promise to make any final agreement retroactive to April 28, and the union's prompt acceptance of the board's proposal to keep work...
...TIME, March 31 under "Science," British Author-Chemist E. C. Large gives as his reason for Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age-Ireland's potato famine...
True, the potato famine did help establish Free Trade. But how about those stout-hearted manufacturers (not industrialists) of Manchester who sacrificed their fortunes and in some cases their lives for the principles of Free Trade long before the fungus struck the potato crop...
...Known for 50 years as the Potato Road, Bangor & Aroostook suffered with Maine farmers, last year skipped its common payment for the first time since 1904. But this year booming shipyards and revitalized textile mills are filling some of the cars once loaded with potatoes. When February gross increased 9% to $558,000, net operating income...
...Cryptogamic-i.e., devious in sexual behavior. As late as 1875 many scientists argued that some fungi were of spontaneous generation. So tiny and evasive were the winter spores of the potato fungus that they were not identified until 1910. Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations...