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Next day the War Department awarded a contract for $347,156,674 worth of "Es," the biggest single order for aircraft ever given. At the price of Flying Fortresses (around $300,000 apiece) the order indicated that the U.S. and Britain wanted a fleet of about 1,000 out of the Boeing plant. That is the beginning. Douglas and Vega (subsidiary of Lockheed) are also readying for B-17E production, will get big orders later...
...fabulous Elsa signed a five-year contract to write a six-day-a-week syndicated column, Elsa Maxwell's Particles. Her reason: a laughter shortage in national defense. "It is a matter of morale," she says, "to be as happy as you can through...
...mistrust of British Imperialism grew with it and he began to spit in the Lion's eye. In 1931 he forbade Imperial Airways to fly over Iranian territory. Spit most staggering to the Lion was his sudden cancellation in 1932 of the old William Knox D'Arcy contract which had now burgeoned into the monster British Government-subsidized Anglo-Persian (later Anglo-Iranian) Oil Co. Iran was getting 16% of the net profits. The Shah wanted 21%. The British took the squabble before the League of Nations. The Shah got what he wanted; the British 30 more years...
Planes. Last October Chrysler leased 600,000 square feet of the old Graham-Paige plant, in anticipation of a bomber parts contract which came through eight months later. Right now this building has nothing to offer but clean floors, a fresh coat of paint, a few piles of aluminum sheeting and some planning boards, but here eventually the 11,500 parts that make up the nose and center fuselage sections of the Martin bomber will be assembled, production-line fashion (there are 2,500 parts in the Plymouth sedan body). Goodyear is making the wings of this ship, Hudson...
Sponsored like radio programs, Nancy Sasser's Buy-Lines is sold to individual newspapers on a 13-week contract, does not plug rival products in the same column, or accept omnibus advertisements for a company manufacturing several articles...