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...operating around the clock. Some, like New Jersey's Brewster Aeronautical (while shifting models) actually had been laying off hundreds of men. But OPM's order changed all that. California's Douglas Aircraft (two-and four-engined bombers) began changing from a five-to a six-day week. At Ypsilanti, Mich. Ford-men worked 24 hours daily (under big floodlights at night) to finish the biggest U.S. bomber plant (see cut). The first mass-produced four-engined bomber should roll out of Ypsilanti by spring, but handmade jobs from Ford's Dearborn plant are expected before...
Said the Secretary of the Building Trades Federation, asking for a return to the six-day week: "Men cannot be expected to carry on at heavy manual labor all the hours God sends, day after day, without a break...
Serious Business. The loss of four top-flight generals was almost as bad news as the misfortune in which they were lost -a six-day Nazi advance from Bengasi right into Egypt. Their loss underlined an interesting feature of General Sir Archibald Wavell's technique of generalship...
Mike Quill's demands included an increase in wages (present wages for drivers are 75? an hour to start, 81? after four years); a six-day week, eight-hour day (instead of the present 54-hour week); three weeks vacation with pay; other improvements and benefits. Mike based his demands (later reduced) on the company's earnings, which he claimed were plentiful...
...Washington, $1-a-year men set a stiff pace for Government men: William Clayton put in 60 hours, W. Averell Harriman, John Biggers and Bill Knudsen around 80 hours in a six-day week. RFC's lights burned nightly...