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Among CBS's recent innovations: > Chapter One, an experiment by the Columbia Workshop (CBS, 2:30-2:55 p.m. E.W.T., Sundays). In the belief that much good writing is also good radio, Workshop workmen attempt to transfer a chapter of a book to the air without adapting (i.e., rewriting) it. The first broadcast- the opening chapter of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Flight to Arras-followed the book faithfully, slipping from narration to dialogue with a minimum of theatrics or sound effects...
...plug this gap workmen are now digging up local pipelines in the Southwest, assembling them into a makeshift cross-country pipeline. In addition oilmen have asked once more for a 1,400-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey, which has been twice turned down by WPB and predecessors for lack of steel. Finally oilmen have still another idea: let the Navy convoy tankers up the East Coast. But that is something the Navy is not likely to do until it has more warships or fewer places to fight...
...backlog has jumped from $10,000,000 to $150,000,000; it has boosted personnel from 1500 to 9500; it has added seven ways to it's original four; it has bought millions of dollars' worth of new machinery. Last week scores of engineers, hundreds of workmen were converting the old Groton Iron Works near by into a modern ten-way sub yard. While thus expanding, Ebco has performed a naval miracle. One of the world's toughest engineering jobs, a sub is a slim air-&-water-tight steel cigar packed with hundreds of miles of wire...
...Caux and Pearl hope to make the Labor for Victory program popular enough for an indefinite run, using labor news, name speakers and interviews with workmen. Labor partisanship, they promise...
There was no working-labor problem. The vast majority of U.S. workmen were working hard, harder than many had ever worked before. Their pay was better, their morale higher, more of them were at work than ever before. Strikes were negligible; and most U.S. workers worked longer than 40 hours a week, many as much...