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...important departures from last year's agreement are embodied in a new contract covering wages, hours, and shop procedure signed Monday by the University and representatives of the dining hall unions...
...detracting in any manner from the fine accomplishments of Mr. Henry Kaiser, as listed in your March 3 issue under Business & Finance, but, as a matter of fact, Shasta Dam in northern California is not being constructed by Mr. Kaiser, or by any of his companies. The general contract for the construction of that dam is held by Pacific Constructors, Inc., president of which is Wm. A. Johnson; secretary, J. C. Maguire; and general superintendent, F. T. Crowe. Mr. Kaiser has no connection with this company...
...Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party's denunciation of the Hitler-Stalin pact, was read out of the party, lost the election...
Civilian Engineer John C. Garand and his co-workers at Springfield Armory had licked many of their worst production problems, still had a tough job, but were doing very well at it. Winchester Repeating Arms Co. has been trying to get into Garand production for 17 months, has a contract for 65,000 Garands, last week was edging into real production after 17 months of arduous effort. By next year the Army expects to have enough Garands (400,000) for its expanded force (not all soldiers are riflemen...
...waisted young bucko who had quit Buffalo Bill's circus for prospecting whirled into Manhattan, met handsome Socialite-Banker Julian M. Gerard, brother of World War I Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard. Charmed and impressed, Gerard grubstaked Death Valley Scotty (Walter Scott) to $10,000, made a contract to get 22½% of all nuggets he found. Ever since, Death Valley Scotty has been talking about his hidden gold mines, and though Scotty has gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week in Los Angeles court he sued...