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Pulmotor Department. To help revive Brewster, Kaiser installed his tall, bespectacled son, Henry Jr., who has been Kaiser's eyes and legs on many a West Coast project, as administrative assistant. His job: to kill off the hex. Then the War Labor Board gave Kaiser a mighty boost by designating an arbiter to settle disputes on the spot, and put Brewster's union on probation for six months. With this solid backing, Kaiser sat down with the tough, headstrong boss of the Brewster union, Tom De Lorenzo,* got from him a promise that the union would cooperate...
...courage, efficiency. Iris is more of an artist's model. She shanghaies Maisie's pilot into betrothal. She is even more bored than Maisie with the richly kidded clubs for "Ladies in Waiting" (girls who are waiting for servicemen to come home) which are set up to boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood...
...banks that struggle to keep track of some 18 billion ration points a month got a well-earned boost last week. For eight months they have operated "checking accounts" for U.S. retailers, who deposit their ration coupons periodically, then draw upon them to replenish their stocks. But although OPA is paying the banks some $12,000,000 a year for their pains, most of them arestill losing money on their deal with the Government. Last week, therefore, OPA raised their fees for opening and handling accounts by about 25%, to somewhere nearer the break-even point for the average bank...
Progressive education was enjoying a boost last week from the ranks of its professional enemies-the Essentialists. Widely known are the aims of the Progressives: informal learning through active experience; the development of initiative, responsibility and the mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils as individuals, with teachers acting more as guides than as formal instructors. Less familiar is Essentialism, although hosts of U.S. citizens lean toward the Essentialists. This educational wing would give pupils systematic training in traditional subjects; discipline is stressed and informal learning strictly subordinated...
Thus, says Wiess, what the U.S. is saving by gasoline rationing is only enough to balance the decrease in gasoline production, leaving no fat to absorb the tremendous increase in overall demand. Can the U.S. boost production to meet this...