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...wartime production of armored vehicles, shells and airplane cowlings along with peacetime farm equipment. When he was made chairman five years ago, directors changed the bylaws to let him keep the chief executive powers. McCormick decentralized the company's management, sparkplugged its $150 million postwar expansion, helped boost profits from $22 million in 1946 to $66,700,000 last year. He also made a reputation as a business statesman, favored liberal pensions, cost-of-living adjustments and other benefits, personally mediated a strike last fall by giving the union almost everything it wanted...
Nevertheless, the team is hustling for the first time in a decade. The transfer of Junior Stephens from short-to-third has given the defense a huge boost, which outweighs even Lou Boudreau's 250 hitting. And Johnny Pesky is always ready to take Boudreau's place. Only the catching is bad, but it is very bad. Les Moss, bought from St. Louis to replace Birdie Tebbetts, is just barely keeping his batting average over...
...Pawtucket, R.I., the A.F. of L. Teachers' Alliance (to which all but 58 of the city's 520 teachers belong) was out on strike for the second week, demanding a $410 cost-of-living salary boost. With their classrooms technically open (in order to qualify for state financial aid), some students were dutifully checking in at the usual time in the morning, milling around for a bit, and then resuming their unexpected holiday...
Next year will mark the completion of the General Education program, with freshmen required to take three full G.E. courses. The new course will raise degree requirements from 16 to 16 1/2 credits, which will in turn boost the freshman load to 4 1/2 courses...
...Wasp-powered planes. Bill Boeing, quick to grasp what the Wasp would do to commercial air transport costs, grabbed the first Chicago-San Francisco airmail contract by underbidding everybody else by nearly half. To everybody's amazement, he made money doing it, and gave commercial flying a tremendous boost. Explained Boeing: "We would rather carry more mail than a radiator and water for cooling...