Vol. 78/No. 40      November 10, 2014

The majority of the fatalities occurred when a one-and-a-quarter mile stretch of an interstate highway collapsed in Oakland. Rush hour commuters on the lower deck of Interstate 880 were crushed in their cars as the concrete-and-steel roadway supports shattered and the upper deck came crashing down.

J. David Rogers, a seismic engineer, studied [the highway] in 1975 as a graduate student and found it had “zero reinforcement on the supporting columns.”

“We knew the structure needed some changes,” Jerry Oliver of the California Department of Transportation said, “It’s a question of money.”

November 9, 1964
In a stunning hit-and-run attack a week ago, a handful of daring Vietnamese guerrillas cost Washington at least 25 million dollars. They destroyed five and damaged 15 more B-57 bombers. The guerillas were apparently using mortar ammunition captured from the French during the Indo-Chinese war before 1954.

On the one hand, the liberation fighters are using out-dated weapons which they have captured over the course of their 20-year liberation struggle.

On the other hand, the U.S. forces are equipped with the most advanced nuclear weapons … and B-57s aren’t counter-guerilla weapons. The B-57 is a long-range bomber equipped with heavy nuclear bombs, designed for attacking industrial centers and large military installations.

November 10, 1939
DETROIT, Nov. 7 — Chrysler workers remain locked out of their plants while corporation officials are stalling and hedging on the just demands of the auto workers union.

Sufficient concessions have already been made by the corporation to prove the justified basis of the workers’ grievances. The main demands for a union shop and voice in setting of production standards are still the object of haggling.

Despite the loud-voiced publicity of the Corporation about slow-down strikes, “sovietization” and similar buncombe, they have agreed to rehire some 70 men of the original 105 discharged on the alleged charges indicated above. The union has refused to trade the jobs of any of the workers fired. They are remaining firm on the demand that all of those fired be returned to their jobs.  
 
 
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