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...Distribute orders so that a few large companies (such as Bethlehem, where S. W. O. C. has tried unsuccessfully so far to get a contract) are not permitted to pile up backlogs while smaller mills lie idle...
...Having used them against each other, the networks last week united in using C. A. B. statistics against their common foe ASCAP, the cooperative which controls most U. S. music. The networks claimed that according to C. A. B. figures radio listening had not decreased since their contract with ASCAP acrimoniously expired Dec. 31. Promptly they were jolted with the news that in its regular report C. A. B. had checked the popularity of 91 evening programs, discovered that since the New Year 52 were down, 35 up, four unchanged...
Antique federal immigration laws, intended to outlaw importation of contract labor and which today prohibit organizations from paying transportation costs of emigres, should be changed. The old quotas must be revised or abandoned. Uncle Sam's refusal to classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments...
...contract called for a $20,000,000 arsenal to be built by Chrysler (Chrysler's fee: $1) for the Government, an initial order of 1,000 tanks at $33,500 apiece. Eddie Hunt said he could roll the first tank off the line within twelve months from contract date: that was Chrysler's promise...
...Vinson's remarks in the Congressional Record (whence it was speedily extracted by the press). Put down in one place for all to see, the Navy's summary was probably more complete than any that a foreign agent could compile from the most careful collection of individual contract announcements...