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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1979
Page
9
A humorous meditation on the woes of travel from a Cedar Rapids Gazette column. The piece lampoons luggage chaos, gate mix ups, and the misery of layovers while noting the Wright brothers’ bicycle ride as a contrast. The author vents about lost luggage, window seat woes, and the feast or famine law of in flight catering.
The Labor Department reports over half a million workers were underpaid in violation of federal wage and hour laws. Back wages paid in fiscal year 1979 totaled $98.7 million, up 26 percent from the prior year, covering minimum wage overtime equal pay and age discrimination issues. The note also recalls FDR’s 1941 message to Hirohito as World War II tensions rose.
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