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...four years wartime restrictions have kept gasoline stations closed tight, after 7 p.m. every weekday and all day Sundays - a welcome relief to filling-station men who used to work 18-hour days and seven-day weeks. Their anguish, when the Government lifted the wartime curb last week, was enormous. Promptly, Manitoba's Automotive Trades Association, representing 90% of the gas stations in the province, bowed to the new fondness for restrictions, voted to stick to war time hours...
...last January, the plant was working again, and there was money for the payroll. To make up for lost production, Ruiz worked the plantation on a seven-day week, kept going even when the Kabasalan River went on a rampage, flooded the plantation, ripped out bridges, and filled the smokehouse with muddy water...
...Yank. From a draft board in Brooklyn, Correspondent Bernstein's career in the Army carried him to Georgia, to Italy, and finally into German-held Yugoslavia, where he became the first U.S. newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein's book, much of which was reprinted from the pages of the New Yorker, will value it mostly for the scissors-sharp silhouettes it contains of plain American G.I.s...
Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...
...make matters more difficult, the soldiers worked with unabashed fervor to make good (and possibly win furlough extensions), and to make as much as $100 a week, with overtime. They worked as if they had never heard of anything but a seven-day week...