Unfinished Dickens Novel Mystery and Early Parking Meters
A reader quiz notes Charles Dickens unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood leaving its ending uncertain. It also recalls Oklahoma City installing the nation’s first parking meters in 1935 with nickel slots at each 20 foot space.
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Edwin Drood
Dickens
U.S
Oklahoma City
Okla
Three Day Week Idea Stirs Texas Economist
Houston consultant Dr. Millard C. O. Faught proposes a 30 hour work week driving city crowding down and boosting rural vitality. He envisions workers living one week in the city and four days at home, with two shifts and a faster economy, while warning of social strains and rising divorces until the plan stabilizes.
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Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
Houston
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Millard C.O. Faught
Texas
Faught
New Deal
NRA
Economist
America
Voluntary arbitration eyed as cure for strike gridlock
A study under the American Arbitration Association with leaders like I W Abel and R Heath Larry explores voluntary binding arbitration as an alternative to strikes. Inflation and damaged wages spur both labor and management toward potential acceptance, with WWII wage stability offered as precedent.
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John Cunniff
New York
American Arbitration Association
I.W. Abel
United Steelworkers
R. Heath Larry
U.S. Steel
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