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...first issue of TIME-in- Iran was printed in seven days by Persian and Armenian workmen bossed by a Turk interpreter on Indian and British papers run off from a German-made press-for distribution to American boys who are getting vital Lend-Lease war goods through to Russia. So I guess this new edition is a truly "international" magazine if ever there...
...wrong thing: he never completed his gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...
...Taxco policeman. Two others confessed that they had been hired to do in the man of Taxco. Taxco's mayor, a citizens' committee and the officials of American Smelting Co., which has twelve mines in the vicinity, decided at long last that the pit had its fill. Workmen were sent to seal the Devil's Nostril. When they are finished, 20 ft. of logs, concrete and boulders will cover its secrets...
...Workmen at the Remington Arms Co. plant in Bridgeport, Conn, call the incendiary "Blue Goose" (because its nose is colored blue, to differentiate it from other types of ammunition). The bullets are made in a secret area where visitors are barred and all workers must wear a special uniform. Neatest trick yet performed with the projectile: destroying a Japanese cargo vessel. U.S. flyers did that by dropping their belly fuel tanks on the ship's deck, then raking them with blue geese. The ship burned briskly...
...Labor unions have exploited labor itself in the following ways: the refusal of one local to honor membership of another local of the same union, requiring workmen to pay dues to a large number of unions, compelling employers to break their contracts with the unions of their choice, compelling employers to break off relations with unions certified by the National Labor Relations Board, failure to hold elections, intimidation, packing of membership to win elections, refusal to admit competent workmen to union membership . . . exorbitant charges for dues, fees, work permits, and denial of the right to membership because of race...