Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies are being interviewed in Big-Businesslike detail as to their education, past occupations, talent for furnishing public entertainment, favorite sports. Queries are couched in folksy phrases. Occupational aptitude...
...Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet, unsocial Hollywood life in spite of his upper-bracket salary...
...other bracket, Harvey will battle Orme Wilson...
...renters got the benefit of this trend. Only tangible growth in city vacancies (hence lower rents) was in the upper brackets-houses and apartments renting for $45 or $50 a month and more. In much-moving Manhattan, renters in that bracket found reductions averaging 2½ to 5%. Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau...
...lower-bracket two-thirds of New York's movers got no rent reductions. By the city's latest survey of $49-and-under rentals, vacancies were 2% less than the norm. Fighting rent increases and non-renewal notices in all parts of the city, the tough little City-Wide Tenants Council and its 22 tenant union leagues were hornet-mad. Formed in 1936 to promote better and cheaper housing, the Council has fraternal relations with militant tenants' unions in Great Britain and Philadelphia, is a constant source of trouble to landlords. Now is its busy season...