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...operation . . . the Secretary, under the direction of the President, is authorized to institute condemnation proceedings with respect to such plant or facility and to acquire it ... the Secretary may take immediate possession of such plant or facility and operate it either by Government personnel or by contract with private firms pending the determination of the issues...
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, whose "perfect romance" was marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey...
...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
World War II has done more than turn the U. S. into an exporter of pulp. Pulp prices have soared, are 50% above what the industry itself regards as normal. Contract prices on domestic kraft pulp have jumped from $25 a ton to $61 ; bleached No. 1 book sulfite pulp, at $72.50, is 45% above August 1939. For integrated paper companies with their own pulp supply, this is caviar. International Paper & Power earned $3.61 a common share in six months ended June 30 as against a deficit of $1.22 last year. But for the nonintegrated units ("converters," who buy their...
...Manhattan, Baritone Tibbett went into a huddle with Boss Petrillo, emerged hopeful. Said Mr. Petrillo: "I'll never be unreasonable with anybody. . . . They can call me tough if they want to, but my word is as good as any contract. . . . Everybody calls me the tsar, the chieftain and this and that. What...