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...destroyed the famed Gainsborough painting of the Bard's bust being leaned on by Actor David Garrick. In Chicago, Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo declared that Maurice Evans' Hamlet with incidental music was not a drama but a musical (and thus the incidental musicians got a pay boost...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...
...increase, which replaced the temporary 6½% boost the roads got from ICC last June, was almost as much as the railroads had asked for in April. They had wanted a general 19.6% rate raise, enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...
...maelstrom. Taken in by slick Chungking double-talk of a new freedom for China, the United States has actively supported the Kuomintang government not only in hopes of destroying feudalism in China, but also of checking the spread of Communist influence in Asia. In its zeal, however, to boost China into the twentieth century, the United States has mislaid the basic principles of democracy and stands open to the charge of using the Chinese people as pawns in a game of power politics...
...chutes and conveyors, it will be the last word in department-store merchandising. Customers will be able to park their cars in the Foley garage, make their purchases, find them in their cars when finished. But Fred Lazarus has not been satisfied to wait for the new store to boost business. Foley's sales are already running close to double the rate they were when Federated took over, and profit this year is up to nearly...