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...least $50,000 a day is spend in concessionaires' factory cafeterias and rolling canteens. Biggest factor nationally is the F. B. Prophet Co., which grosses $50,000 per day, services 61 companies and some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge, a good part...
...Boston's Crotty Bros, is probably the largest factory feeder anywhere, with almost 500,000 workers in 68 corporations from Maine to Florida and west to Des Moines daily eating out of its hand. This year Crotty expects to gross $15,000,000 (v. $9,500,000 in 1941), though its president Andrew Crotty says that its profits are still figured "in pennies...
...country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
...Warner Bros, contract that would have paid him $60,000 for one picture. Paulette Goddard ditched a radio appearance...
...celebrate their first 125 years of publishing Harper & Bros, this week reissued these two neatly bound and boxed volumes by an Englishwoman, whose name, once known to all U.S. literates, has been all but forgotten. Harriet Martineau visited the U.S. only 20 years after the bitter War of 1812, first published in 1838 this account of what she saw. But few books could be more timely. Reason: few Britons have ever seen the U.S. so clearly or reported what they saw with such understanding and fairness. But Harriet Martineau's book is important in another way. It looks, through...