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...close to $1 billion, a series of strikes and squabbles delayed its effective operation until 1950. Since 1946, the mine operators have upped their contribution from 5? to 40? a ton. They have also accepted responsibility for the monumental task of bringing modern medicine to the industry with the second-highest accident rate (after logging) in the U.S. Unlike many unions, the U.M.W. has run the program so efficiently that a Senate subcommittee investigating union welfare funds last April called it "honestly and well administered ... no less than excellent...
Strator, who had successfully interested and trained several friends, then fell across Dick Corbeil, who has already won his "brown bolt"--symbol of second-highest achievement in judo. Last spring and fall, Corbeil, Strater, and a half-dozen friends worked out in the I.A.B., and this year, they have University permission to do so officially...
Except for the elections (see above), last week was most notable for three returning shows and an off-screen squabble. Du Mont's second-highest rated program, Life Is Worth Living (the first: professional football), again featured Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, resplendent in his ecclesiastical robes and as pontific in gesture and incisive in speech as before. There were some additions: 1) a new set, giving the appearance of a paneled, tile-floored room, 2) a new statue of the Virgin Mary that was conceived and commissioned by the bishop and introduced as "Our Lady of Television...
M.I.T. was the second-highest eastern college. Yale managed to draw 19, while Chicago took 15 of them. Other high-ranking schools were Cornell with 13 and Notre Dame with...
...White House last week went tall, brooding Dr. Raul Morales Beltrami, who, as Chile's Minister of the Interior, holds the second-highest political office in one of the only two Latin American countries which have not as yet broken relations with the Axis. What he and Franklin Roosevelt discussed was their own secret. Yet observers in North and South America were sure that the visit presaged an early move by Chile toward complete partnership in the United Nations...