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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of demanding more pay or shorter hours, Hochman merely asked the manufacturers to do two things dear to every manufacturer's heart: run their business more efficiently and make more money. Hochman's theory: the union already had a 35-hour week and adequate pay minimums; how well its members prospered in the future depended on how well their industry fared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOTHING: Historic Contract | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...medium distances are also fairly strong with Tim Coggeshall and Paul Alken running in the 600 and Charlie Eberhard and Alan Pifer competing in the 300. In general, it seems that as the distances grow shorter, the Yardlings' ability also seems to fizzle, with the result that the dashes are unreliable and Exeter proved that the team must depend on the distances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

...basses: "You sound like a bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Businessmen's Orchestra | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...post-Defense collapse; 4) but price inflation can only be controlled by increased taxes on and borrowing from the middle class, thus cutting down its consumption and making it Defense Victim No. 1; 5) retailers, though they will get more business in 1941, will have to take shorter markups. Best off will be those catering to wage earners, low-income groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sellers of Butter | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Therefore, if another route were open by which Germany might strike Greece alone, it would be logical to expect the Nazis to take it. That route exists, a much shorter, more convenient route than through the Brenner and via Italy. It lies across Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to Salonika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Lowlands of 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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