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After our years of effort at morale building to boost production in our plants, TIME [Sept. 11] tops them all with its story on the Grumman Co. and the planes it builds. I'm sure that all of the 22,000 people in our organization have read this story, and that their pride in their organization has been given a real boost. Each one will work just a little harder to see that the Navy continues to get the planes they need-when they need them...
...reach higher permanent rank (in 1941 there were only 21 active major generals, six lieutenant generals, one full general) the income with allowances for dependents is around $10,000. Flying pay, parachute pay, foreign-service pay boost these salaries. War creates more temporary high ranks. But the military careerist, whose peacetime responsibilities should be large and whose wartime responsibilities may be awesome, can expect only to die poor...
...midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...