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...most important factories in the U. S. today is the humming Boeing Aircraft Co. plant at Seattle, Wash. Boeing is turning out contract orders for 80-odd four-motored Flying Fortresses weeks ahead of schedule, will go into production in April on a whacking order for more than 500 additional Fortresses of a later model. Odds & ends in its $190,000,000 backlog include Douglas light bombers for Britain (manufactured under license), other British warplanes, and six Model 314 flying boats intended for globetrotting Pan American Airways...
Fortnight ago, for reasons that no one seemed able to make plain to laymen, the Army laid out another $69,000,000 contract for Allison engines. The Army thus raised its bet on an apparently underpowered engine (and planes designed for it) to $159,500,000. And the Army also had $62.448,000 out in orders for Rolls-Royce Merlins (to be built by Packard...
...could refer his men to a numbered section of the score, sight unseen. Says he, simply: "I learn the music." Last week rumors flew that the Phil harmonic might offer Conductor Mitro poulos a permanent job. To get him, the orchestra management would have to buy off Barbirolli, whose contract at a comparatively modest salary has two years to run. Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos a big salary as such things go: $25,000 a year. His present contract...
...Academy, Betty understudied on Broadway, then landed the ingenue lead in the London production of She Loves Me Not. Soon she caught the eye of Producer George Abbott, who stuck her in Three Men on a Horse and five other comedies before Hollywood whistled with a fancy five-year contract. Currently on furlough, she is acting the lead in Elmer Rice's new play, Flight to the West, which opened on Broadway this week...
Booting home the most winners means a lot to a jockey: it crowns him national riding champion, often helps land a contract with a rich stable, a chance to ride in big-money stake races, where owners usually give jockeys 10% of their winnings. So last fortnight, when Jockey Dew, racing in California, realized that an idle week gave his Eastern rival a chance to overtake him, he hopped a plane, flew to Florida to fight it out with young Taylor at Tropical Park...