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...days old. Twenty of those days had been spent in organizing itself. In the 100 days since, it had delivered no important materiel. But out of the $10,529,000,000 which Congress had authorized it to spend, it had cleared $7,660,282,000 worth of contracts for war goods. Of these contracts, only $80,000,000 worth still remained to be awarded last week by the Army & Navy. The orders: Aircraft. With a weather eye on the way Air Marshal Goring's Luftwaffe was tearing up tactics books in Europe, Bill Knudsen tackled aircraft...
Architects have not yet decided upon some of the details of the building. At present University officials are attempting to obtain a contract for welding the steel girders of the building so as to avoid the noisy riveting which otherwise would be necessary. Although cheaper than welding, riveting would cause a terrific racket in the Yard, officials...
According to my juggling of the figures in the enclosed clipping from the New York Times, Lockheed is to be paid $73>85° apiece for making 410 interceptor pursuit planes and Boeing is to get $254,332 apiece for 277 heavy bombers ordered under War Department contract last week...
...month. Possible draftees now drive 354,000 partly-owned cars, owe about $200 each or $70,800,000, less than 6% of $1,420,000,000 total auto loans. General Motors Acceptance Corp., No. i auto-finance company, figures possible conscripts hold no more than i?% of its contracts. But other auto financiers say they will examine future buyers more carefully, are considering a new type of contract with a co-maker. They may also ask more cash down, larger monthly payments...
...pestering receptionists in the front office for auditions. Last June when Director Wood heard them, he quickly signed Betty for Rangers. Betty's sincere, naïve, yet strangely adult mind has made her as popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought her a seven-year contract which now pays $100 weekly. She supports her family in a small whitewashed bunga low, responds to frequent touches by broke friends and relations. Her greatest extravagance to date is a pair of $3.98 cowboy boots which she used to wear continuously until schoolmates' jibes forced her to abandon...