Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue was one of the most peculiar in Australia's turbulent labor history. Miners' demands for shorter hours and a three-month long-service vacation after seven years' employment had been pending before the Coal Tribunal. The tribunal's sole member is Francis Heath Gallagher, a lawyer who now spends much of his time in the coal mines and is sympathetic with the miners' grievances...
...South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float in a Mardi Gras parade...
This week John L. began talks with a group of operators traditionally more hospitable than the Southerners-U.S. Steel, biggest of the so-called captive operators. He wanted Big Steel to boost miners' pensions, and to give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay. Otherwise, another long coal strike seemed certain. For shortly after his newly proclaimed "period of inaction" ends, the miners will take their annual ten-day vacation. And by the time the vacation is over, the miners' contract will have run out. If there is no agreement by then John...
Truman and his good friend Dutra (who is a head shorter) also got together at a more sensible hour of the day to eat a few slices from a seven-tier cake prepared in honor of Dutra's 64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts...
...change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle periods." Ogilvie adds: "Science is advanced further in a shorter time by the informal chatter of a few like-minded friends over cocktails than by the formal exchange of a paper or by any number of congresses...