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Last week Nazi workmen removed the remains of L'Aiglon from the dingy cellar of Vienna's Capuchin Church, placed the plain lead casket aboard a Paris-bound express. Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop left Berlin for a secret destination. Pierre Laval, Vice Premier of France, left Paris for Vichy. He arrived there late one afternoon...
...afternoon last week. Repair Foreman Ernest Jones noticed a leak in one of the river-water pipes. He sent a gang of workmen to repair it. They found a little water oozing out of an old valve, plugged the leak. Then, according to department custom, they opened the valve, to maintain even pressure with 15,000 other valves in the system. Without knowing it, they had opened an old valve connecting the river water with the drinking water...
Next morning. Mr. Jones checked the workmen's reports with a pipe map. Suddenly he saw what had happened. Off he dashed to close the valve. But it was too late. Some four million gallons of filthy water from the thaw-high Genesee had poured into Rochester drinking water. The city faced a typhoid epidemic...
Biggest downpour was in Detroit. Signing a new agreement with United Auto Workers, Chrysler Corp. granted bonuses of $40 each to some 60,000 workmen (in lieu of vacations with pay), a 2? raise in hourly pay besides. To most observers, it looked as if smart Chrysler had made another smart move. The $40 bonus, which will give employes about $2,250,000, actually will cost Chrysler only about $855,000 net (considering both normal and excess-profits tax savings...
Building a ship is like building a house, where putting up the walls must wait laying the foundation and the roof must wait on the walls. When one job is finished, expert workmen are laid off until the same job comes along on another ship. With shipyards booming along both coasts and the Gulf, laid-off workmen (about 8,000 a month out of 160,000 now employed in the industry) have been loath to wait, frequently have moved to other yards. The purpose of the Washington conference was to stop delays...