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...cartilage in her left knee while on the set of her new film, The VIPs, and wound up resting her pretty bones in a wheelchair after what was described as "manipulative surgery," meaning resetting the knee. Poor Richard had his troubles too. Getting into a cab near Paddington railway station, Burton found himself competing for the ride with six narrow-panted Teddy boys. "Suddenly somebody lunged out," recounted Burton afterward. "Then a really small boy got me on the ground and I was helpless. They kicked me all over." The rascals got the cab, and Dickie got a black...
...labor stoppages, there were no newspapers to speak of in New York or Cleveland last week, no shipping of consequence on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts. In Philadelphia, a bus, trolley and subway strike was making life miserable for commuters, and only a federal court order prevented Southern Railway workers from hitting the bricks. In all, federal mediators were wrestling with more than 20 major strikes last week...
...Natural. The Railway Labor Brotherhoods are expected to appeal against the consolidation, but the courts have seldom reversed the ICC in a merger case. About the only strong opposition to the move could come from the competitive New York Central, which not so long ago had designs on the B. & O. itself and complained that a C. & O.-B. & O. hookup would leave the Central "holding the bag out on a limb." (The Central started talking merger with the Pennsylvania in earnest only after the C. & O. and B. & O. refused to consider a threeway tie with the Central...
...employment changed. The number of workers in professional and related services soared by 58%. those involved in finance and real estate increased by 41%, and those in public administration by 27%. At the same time, the number of workers in coal mining dropped by 56%, those in railroad and railway express by 31%, and those in textile product industries...
...highest median wage was $7.547 in the legal and engineering and other professional services. Following closely were median earnings of $6,521 in petroleum and coal products, $6,373 in communications and $6,018 in aircraft and parts manufacturing. For women the highest median wage was in railroads and railway express with $4,435, while petroleum and coal products followed with $4,111 and the motor vehicle and equipment industry offered...