Time Clock: Apr. 28, 1961

TOP ELECTRA SPEED of more than 400 m.p.h. will be resumed next month by all 28 of American Airlines' Electra fleet. The planes, which were throttled back after two crashes showed weaknesses in the wings, are now called Electra II because all have had wing members strengthened.

GUARANTEED SALARY instead of hourly wages for auto workers will be a key demand of U.A.W. President Walter Reuther in this year's wage talks with auto companies. Reuther called hourly wages "obsolete, economically unsound, morally indefensible and intolerable."

COSMETIC MAKERS will have to get a safety clearance from...

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