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Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
...picture, The Two-Faced Woman (1941), Garbo has kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia (1944), a wartime boost for America's Red ally. MGM's comeback was a reissue of Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), a picture that kids the pants off Bolshevik commissars. As soon as prints are ready, Ninotchka will be re-released in most of the nation's larger cities...
...another prop under high prices, the Department decided to set smaller marketing quotas for next year's crop. Less tobacco will keep prices where they are or boost them higher. Said one Department of Agriculture expert: "We'll make a profit on every...
...first week in the new store, Fred Lazarus was sure he had something. The week's gross: about $1,050,000. Lazarus could hardly expect business to stay as good as that, once the novelty wore off. But the mechanical gadgets are expected to boost the average yearly sales of clerks from 30% to 50% over stores of older design. Lazarus was sure that he could gross $24 million a year, 50% more than the old store's take...
Buckling Oil Line. The rise of 20? a barrel in crude oil prices caused Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to boost its wholesale price on supply-pinched oil products by as much as 1½ a gallon. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey still held the price line. But it adopted an allocation plan for its dealers...