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...city room legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage." On call round the clock, he averages an 80-to go-hour workweek, has broadcast more than 2,500 on-the-spot news stories. One of the best: an eyewitness account of a 1955 Harlem gun battle between Manhattan cops and a cornered fugitive...
Chrysler Corp. furloughed 10,300 workers, while other automakers and suppliers made scattered layoffs or cut back overtime and eliminated Sunday work to get back on a normal workweek. All told, some 25,000 were idle in Detroit. Main reason: the 807,000 cars in dealers' hands are more than double the inventory at the same time last year...
President Eisenhower seemed unbothered by these mounting pressures. He stuck to his desk and his schedule, still testing his heart, his body and stamina before making a final decision about running again. At workweek's end, he went to his studio on the second floor of the White House, faced his easel and painted under a north light. It seemed that at least Dwight Eisenhower was relaxed-even if nobody else...
...there will be 69 million jobs, 7.5 million more than in 1950. A drop of 2.3 hours in the non-farm workweek will put the average worker on a 36.5-hour week, but his productivity, while it can hardly match the last decade's 47% rise, is expected to be up 25%. National income per man-hour worked will be $2.68 (v. last year...
...will precisely equal the 24.1% pace set in all spending. Reason: the U.S. housewife is buying more packaged and processed foods, and families are dining out more often. (The real significance of the ratio of food bills to total spending is a cut in the housewife's workweek...