Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Ruth Shuster is greeted by friends and family as she is honored for her 100th birthday Wednesday at the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Ruth Shuster, 100, reacts with surprise as she opens the birthday mailbox filled with dozens of cards from well-wishers for her 100th birthday on Wednesday outside the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon. The mailbox was stationed outside the restaurant for locals to drop off their birthday cards for Shuster.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Michael Deligatti, owner and operator of McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon, adds the Ruth Shuster bobble head to the display Wednesday at the museum and restaurant near Irwin. The newest bobble head was made in the likeness of the long-time Big Mac Museum employee for her 100th birthday and will remain a permanent item in the display.
What if the minimum wage had kept rising at a rate that respected the contribution of workers? “It would be over $24 an hour today.”
So a new Democratic administration could have started where the AFL-CIO does, by noting that, “had the federal minimum wage kept pace with workers’ productivity since 1968 the inflation-adjusted minimum wage would be $24 an hour.”
Joe Biden hasn’t gone there.
He has started with a modest proposal to raise the wage to $15 an hour in stages between now and 2025. This is the definition of incremental progress. “$15 an hour and by the way, it’s over a four-year period is not a radical idea,” says Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “If you make $15 bucks an hour, you are not getting rich. But at least, at least, you have a shot to live with a minimum of dignity. You don’t have to have all the stress and pressure that’s on you right now trying to survive on starvation wages.”
America Built Fake Cities to Hide Its World War II Airplane Factories
The cities and villages sat on top of the secret workshops and was meant to fool Imperial Japanese pilots into thinking they were not worth bombing.
Key Point: The idea was a good one, but one that proved largely unnecessary. Thankfully, Imperial Japan was never able to launch a major, full-scale bombing raid on the West coast.
When I was a young boy in Seattle, my father told me about a fake town that had been built on top of Boeing’s Plant 2 during the war. This naturally fired my imagination. What an ingenious way, I thought, to fool the enemy bombers that might being coming over the Emerald City to wreak havoc.
The piece depicts the 12th Century Marrakech mosque at sunset with the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains.
A Christie s spokesperson described the piece as Churchill s most important work.
Adding: Aside from its distinguished provenance, it is the only landscape he made during the war.
Churchill produced the piece during a January 1943 visit to Morocco for the Casablanca Conference – a meeting between the British prime minister and his US counterpart, President Franklin Roosevelt, to discuss a joint offensive against Nazi Germany.
During the trip, Churchill reportedly convinced Roosevelt to travel south from Casablanca to Marrakech with him to watch the sunset over the Atlas Mountains.