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...mildness was only apparent. Soon he was referring to Little Steel's gain under the formula tailored for it as "a lousy nickel" an hour. Under the same percentage formula, building tradesmen got a 22½?-an-hour increase, he said. What was fair about that? Soon, well warmed up, Murray was speaking of Miami-and-Mex-ico-tanned executives daring to suggest that steelworkers are "getting too much money." He talked of the "wise men, fat men, men who are enjoying...
...soon leave the Abbey in charge of Father Mary James Fox as superior. As superior, Father Fox is dispensed from the rule of silence, but like other Trappists he is not allowed to face a newscamera. The guestmaster may also speak (to guests) and the procurator may speak to tradesmen. Any monk can speak to the superior, but if he wishes to communicate with a brother he uses a simplified sign language. Only the abbot can read newspapers, or listen to the radio. If there is some worldly matter he thinks the brothers should know, he can tell them about...
...didn't know its good fortune. Then Mrs. Leila Drew, who writes a column "Mainly for Women" in the English language Buenos Aires Herald, picked up a bit of gossip. She was off like a hound for the pleasant suburb of Villa Urquiza. There the trail got hot. Tradesmen had played with the rumored quints, delivered eight bottles of milk a day to their parents' home. A drug-clerk had seen them brought in batches to be weighed on the scales of the Farmacia San Patricio. Neighbors had seen them being aired in sets...
Manpower. To raise more than 1,000,000 workers and soldiers for war jobs and replacements at the front, Reich Economic Minister Walther Funk issued decrees of total mobilization. Retail tradesmen, restaurants and hotels were required to release every possible man. Theaters, bars, nightclubs and other places of amusement were closed down...
...squandered countless kopeks in the purchases of books and clothing by failing to follow the notices of special sales by local tradesmen, printed only in the CRIMSON...