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...only sound near the top of 10,000-ft. Mount Alagi one morning last week was the chink of a chisel on stone-two workmen were carving a name into a crude headstone. Most of the graves were marked only by rough wooden crosses, hacked from ammunition boxes; beside each cross was a half-buried wine bottle, with the deceased's identification papers crammed in. The workmen, glad to be alive, chipped somberly among the graves of men who had done their brave best...
Objecting to general boosts in excise taxes as much as to a general sales tax, they recommended whopping "selective" sales taxes on such commodities as automobiles (up to 20%), refrigerators, washing machines, which compete with defense industries for materials and workmen and machine tools. This would tend to build up a backlog of consumer needs for the years after the war. Meantime they proposed to let the lower-income group-its wages raised by the defense boom-have its fill of food and other goods which do not compete with defense products...
...pool, on paper, all possible defense tools in plants both large and small; 2) to take defense orders to all these machines, or move the machines to factories busy on defense; 3) to provide skilled workmen and stepped-up schedules which would keep the machines busy as many hours as possible out of the week...
...average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed that the classification of skilled workmen would be re-examined and that some men already in the Army might be transferred to factories...
Suit. At Spread Eagle, Wis., a prostitute filed an application for compensation under the State Workmen's Compensation Law for injuries received while feeding the house dog at the orders of her madame...