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...Garand and Johnson rifles controversy which has rocked military circles, standardization of airplane specifications, and contract factors such as types offered, price ranges, and penalties for failure of delay of delivery are specific among the difficulties to be brought...
...lumber business has boomed. A. F. of L. unions have demanded higher wages. While A. F. of L. picketed a big Weyerhaeuser mill in Everett, demanding 7½? more than the present minimum 62½? an hour, the C. I. O. union stepped in, signed a contract gaining only 2½? an hour increase. This situation demonstrated, for anybody to see, the need for labor unity...
Great news came last week to Philadelphia's dusty, rusting Cramp shipyards on the Delaware River, which built wooden clippers, Civil War ironclads, World War I destroyers. The recently reorganized, refinanced Cramp Shipbuilding Co. (TIME, Sept. 23) got a $113,822,000 contract to build six cruisers for the U. S. Navy's second-ocean fleet, an additional $9,500,000 to rehabilitate and expand the abandoned yards...
...Year later Maestro Toscanini signed a contract to conduct the fledgling NBC Orchestra over the radio...
Eugene Ormandy is regular conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and last month signed a new five-year contract with it. But Leopold Stokowski is still its occasional conductor. Last week he was in Philadelphia for one of his brief stints on the podium. As always, he made news...