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WASHINGTON--Far-reaching proposals to speed defense output--including a general six-day week in defense industries and government authority to draft labor as well as industry "if the situation gets serious enough"--were urged today by Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore aircraft manufacturer...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/15/1941 | See Source »

Married. Ezio Pinza, 48, big, curly-haired Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, who used to be a six-day bicycle racer; and Doris Neal Leak, 22; at Larchmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...should know summed up the skilled-labor problem last week. One was Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors Corp. He flatly declared that U. S. industry should return to the six-day week as soon as "the slack of unemployment has been taken up." Said Mr. Sloan: "America today is working a shorter number of hours per week than any other nation-certainly any other involved in war or defense. Output can be increased 20% by working six days a week in place of five." Mr. Sloan also warned that the greatest source of inflationary danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR,RAILROADS,MERCHANDISING: The Wages of Defense | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...churchmen everywhere, the meeting was doubly historic: it paved the way for a possible reconciliation of science and religion, separated 80 years ago by the conflict between six-day Creation and the theory of evolution. Never had so many famed scientists of no religious affiliation answered a call to meet for a common purpose with religious leaders. Never had so many famed churchmen held their peace while an outstanding scientist urged them to give up their belief in a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Science and Religion | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers to shift jobs was promulgated. In Rome, Mussolini amiably upped the Italian 40-hour week to equal the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: More Work | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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