(3 of 11)
5. Given control over both Army & Navy forces.
LABOR, MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS & FINANCE
16. John L. Lewis and the people went to the mat again in November, but the Coal Boss ordered his miners back to work (until March 31) after:
1. Truman called a special session of Congress to pass drastic anti-labor legislation.
2. A Federal court held Lewis in contempt, fined the U.M.W. $3.5 million.
3. Eisenhower drafted striking miners.
4. Attorney General Clark jailed Lewis.
5. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach ordered the Army to run the mines.
17. Management's biggest headache at January's end was the almost $5 billion in suits filed by Labor:
1. Against industry for maintaining company unions.
2. As damages for lockouts in four key industries.
3. Claiming slander by the N.A.M. against C.I.O. and A.F.L. leaders.
4. In compensation for pay lost by wildcat strikes.
5. To collect portal-to-portal back pay.
18. But soon after the first of the year came evidence of a new relationship between management and labor when contracts were extended in:
1. The aircraft industry. 4. The railroad industry.
2. Autos and steel. 5. Shipping concerns.
3. The printing trades.
19. Henry Ford II made news in January when he announced that his company would:
1. Be forced to raise prices as much as $125 to meet new demands from the U.A.W.
2. Cut prices from $15 to $50 on all Ford models.
3. Immediately give its workers a 30¢-an-hour wage increase.
4. Make no more cars until an end had come to "the insane spiral of costs and prices."
5. Produce an atom-powered car in 1948.
20. And New York Central stock rose steadily as news came out that the line might soon:
1. Top all other U.S. railroads in earnings.
2. Be controlled by Robert R. Young of Alleghany Corp.
3. Declare a whopping dividend—biggest in the history of U.S. railroading.
4. Introduce a revolutionary new kind of coach—safer, faster, more luxurious.
5. Slash rates to increase its freight and passenger traffic an estimated 30%.
21. Meantime the Federal Reserve Board fired the first round in the new war on deflation by ruling that people may now buy stocks on a cash payment of:
1. 5%. 3. 50%. 5. 100%.
2. 25%. 4. 75%.
22. And good news for consumers was the fact that by the end of January all but one of these major commodities had fallen substantially in price:
1. Butter. 3. Heavy metals. 5. Wheat.
2. Cotton. 4. Livestock.
HERE AND THERE
23. The Army proved that transpolar air war was possible when it flew the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat over the Arctic from:
1. Alaska to Iceland. 4. New York to Tokyo.
2. Guam to the Azores. 5. San Francisco to Perth,
3. Hawaii to Cairo. Australia.
24. In Georgia the death of Gene Talmadge led to a bitter "Battle of the Governors" among Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall and:
1. D. Talmadge Bowers.
2. Ed Crump. 4. John Rankin.
3. J. V. Carmichael. 5. Melvin E. Thompson.
25. In a surprising change of front, the cautious, conservative National Educational Assn. called on teachers to:
1. Apply