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...Franklin Roosevelt weighed anchor. As his ship headed north and west into the North Pacific fogs, the President cast a line overboard. His catch: one halibut, one flounder. At Adak, an as-yet-uncompleted base in the Andreanof Islands, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore, amid fog and mud, for a six-hour stay...
...feud was born in the years of bitter, even bloody fighting between the C.I.O. Rubber Workers union and rubber's Big Four of Akron (Goodyear, Goodrich, General and Firestone). Akron was saddled with a six-hour day, which management started during the depression, and which the rubber workers grimly held to thereafter. Not till January of this year did the last group of Akron's tire workers agree to work eight hours, even for war. The whole tire industry's 45.5 hour week is under the national war industry average...
...Provost Marshal's white-helmeted, white-gaitered M.P.s ("Ike's Snowballs") make periodic sweeps of London looking for A.W.O.L.s. They sift Red Cross clubs, dance halls, pubs, hotels and railway stations check dog tags and furlough papers. In one recent six-hour sweep they caught 104 soldiers absent without leave, three of whom were wearing civilian clothes...
...Milwaukee, the would-be Dewey delegation held a smoky, six-hour conference, spoke many a harsh word about their hero's 13th-hour repudiation. Seventeen of them-not for love of Dewey but because they cannot bear Willkie-decided to stick it out despite the Governor's "disapproval...
Sixteen, and not six, should be the figure in the sentence reading - "His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day." Two daily shifts of eight hours each are contemplated...