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...rubber plants as well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
Storm Warnings. Behind I. L. G. W. U.'s move lay a growing conviction that labor's six-year record of growth was genuinely imperiled by labor's split. Good union men could look skeptical while businessmen complained loudly about the cost of A. F. of L.C. I. O. conflict. They could listen, polite but unimpressed, while politicians shuddered and sighed over the fearful feud of Bill Green and John Lewis. Last week Son Elliott Roosevelt talked long and earnestly over the radio about the Chrysler strike, suggested that John Lewis' inability to make peace with...
...last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason for the need for new generating capacity is the relatively small recent investment in utilities plants. In 1929 the utilities invested over $900,000,000 in new plant, topping a six-year average of about $800,000,000. Depression practically stopped all utility investment, but even in 1937 new utility investment (exclusive of TVA and other Government spending) recovered to only $450,000,000. One reason for expanding power sales is that today every installation by industry of high-powered modern machinery...
...only for formal purposes and then delegates its work to the smaller Faculty Council. But on Tuesday the full Faculty (consisting of all ranks over and including Faculty Instructors) was discussing a question which must have seemed more pressing than any that has come up in President Conant's six-year tenancy of University Hall...
...churchyard at the head of Wall Street slept humidly under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...