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...crisp bills represented part of the profits that have rolled into Silver-thorne's hands in the year that he has been operating a wildcat airline called ANHSA (National Airline of Honduras). Though the little republic already had two major airlines, TACA of Honduras and SAHSA, a Pan American affiliate, the newcomer had somehow skimmed off the cream of the freight business...
Before the President took to the radio, the wildcat strike of railroad switchmen and yardmen threatened to be one of the ugliest in U.S. history. It was timed cunningly, to put the best face on it. The strikers were out to delay a maximum of Christmas mail and hold up deliveries to Korea, thus win higher pay. The strike started in Chicago, where 8,500 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen reported "sick" and refused to work. Within 24 hours, 50,000 trainmen were idle in ten U.S. cities, and traffic was snarled on 30 of the nation...
...penetrates a stately New England mansion to the tempestuous life within. There, out of a diseased respect for respectability, an aristocratic matron (Mildred Dunnock) has lived with her husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying of children to chairs and the choking of adults on sofas, everyone dresses...
Concert-touring through Texas, the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, tempted by talk of gushers and wildcat drilling offers, shelled out some money and waited for the oil to pour in. If the well pays off, said she, it will be named Nicky, after her six-year-old son. "If it's dry, so what? I've given plenty of unsuccessful auditions in my life...
...history last week: it offered a $25 million-a-year (10?-15?-an-hour) cost-of-living wage increase to 120,000 workers, despite its three-year contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. which freezes wages until July 1, 1951. (The increase had not come without prodding by the union; wildcat strikers, disgruntled over the rise in the cost of living, had thrown 13,000 out of work.) In the fast tightening labor market, Chrysler's new pay scale will help the company in bidding for new workers, since its average hourly wage will be above Ford...