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...unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile Henry Ford, announcing jobs for 30,000 more men in his Detroit plants,* declared himself in favor of a different method of assuring leisure to workingmen. His employes, drawing a minimum wage of $5 a day, will work only five days a week, be laid off two. Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds of 25,000 and more swarmed last week at the gates of the Ford plants, clamoring for the new jobs. They were being taken...
...six-day bicycle race started in Manhattan last week and Milton C. Crandall arrived there with plans for a marathon talking contest which he will hold in January hoping that someone will beat the record of German Herr Parlatus who recently spoke in Berlin...
...Chicago, 14 teams in a six-day bicycle race rode 29 miles in the first hour. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one Tony Chico pedalled a bicycle without stopping...
...coats of watchers at a six-day race show spots from the drop that runs down a bottle of pop when you drink out of it. Their heads keep turning from side to side as if they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs...
...Veteran Frederick Spencer they would play "When You and I Were Young Maggie." Furious, Spencer gained a lap. In the gallery Spectator James Miglio was mauled by a special detective, led off to court in his undershirt and trousers. The band played "Among My Souvenirs." As is usual in six-day races the records of all previous six-day races in lap-stealing, attendance, and the eating of hot dogs (called by bicycle riders "Coney Island chicken") were broken...