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...worked Monday. But when the happy cutters, loaders, drillers, bonders, spraggers, snappers, trappers, trimmers, timbermen, bottom-cagers, slate-pickers and all the rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic wage scale of $5 per day. By administrative order General Johnson promptly made it effective for the whole bituminous industry, thus making Coal's work week the shortest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Wages of Steel | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle's big stratosphere balloon was jockeyed out of its air dock at Akron one early morning last week only a few hundred persons had turned out to watch. On hand were no admirals, no major generals, no tycoons such as graced the seven-hour ceremonies preceding the Settle flight last August which was brought to a quick and ignominious finish in a Chicago railroad yard by a defective valve (TIME, Aug. 14). Since then Soviet stratospherists had made the chances of a new record harder by ascending to 11.8 mi. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Settle Up | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...Sunday the Roosevelts and the MacDonalds went for a seven-hour cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. Because it was chilly on deck the President and the Prime Minister sat below talking, talking, talking, mostly about disarmament and how to bring the moribund Geneva Conference back to life and a happy ending. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt scrambled some eggs in a chafing dish for family supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Receiving the World | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Chiming in after Scot Gilmour, Scot MacDonald asked members of the House "not to say anything that would enable the organizers of the demonstration to pose as benefactors of the unemployed." No such thing was said (see below). Souvenir hunters, prowling over the seven-hour battlefield, collected bits of bloody rags, took snapshots of great dark stains before firemen washed them from the pavement of Boniface Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Parasites! | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

President of the National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford & of three other insurance companies; of heart disease; in Hartford. To attend the funeral Mr. Smith's mother, 79, made a seven-hour airplane flight from Raleigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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