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Click, Click, Click. . . . Pleased with its new teeth, WLB clicked them menacingly in several directions. It reopened the old Montgomery Ward case by summarily ordering the company to grant maintenance of union membership; it denied maintenance of membership to the United Automobile Workers at Chrysler because of continued wildcat strikes...
...sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat fighters swooped in on the U-boat. The last of their depth bombs were direct hits on the deck; only 17 crew members survived...
Significant figures bubbled up from oil-rich Texas to show how the independent oilmen are being frozen out of the oil industry, with the result that the number of new "wildcat" wells has power-dived to an alarming low. Example: Harold Ickes, petroleum arbiter, pleaded for 4,500 wildcats this year. So far Texas operators have sunk a mere 233, bringing in only 1 8 oil wells...
What the decline in wildcats and in dependents might mean in a long, dragged-out war is a disturbing possibility. When the American Army and Navy were only winding up last year, the nation was using 1,500,000,000 barrels a year. New discoveries in 1942 totaled only 317,000,000 barrels, less than one-fourth of the needed replacements. With the war burning oil ever faster the ratio of new wells to use probably means far more pessimistic figures in 1943. The U.S. will not find itself out of oil tomorrow or the next day. But when...
Into the hard-coal mine shafts and sooty breaker houses of East-Central Pennsylvania the miners tramped, glad after 24 days of idleness to be back at work. Once again out of the valleys threaded long, black lines of coal trains. The wildcat, leaderless anthracite strike, which had gained the miners nothing, cost the East 1,000,000 tons of needed fuel, was over at last: the President had stopped it. John L. Lewis had tried and failed (TIME...