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...same time, President Roosevelt laid before Congress details of the newest defense requirements he asked for last Friday. The latest phase of his $5,000,000,000 Emergency Defense Program--largest in the nation's peacetime history--calls for a total of $1,277, 741,170 in cash and contract authorizations
...Thomas & Co., Ltd., the No. 1 British iron, sheet and tin-plate producer, decided to modernize. Its chairman, a forthright, anti-banker industrialist named Sir William John Firth, went to Pittsburgh and hired the experts of United Engineering & Foundry Co. to build him a continuous mill. They signed a contract for a giant (?8,500,000, 650,000 ton) rolling mill to be built in Lincolnshire, where Richard Thomas has steelworks...
...that she will not develop an isolated viewpoint," well-developed Shirley Temple, 11, terminated her contract (she will get a final payment of $300,000), retired from the screen...
...jobs. Later he had a tumbling act of his own, still later played in stock in London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon he was talking shop with, playing the piano for, Richard Rodgers, Moss Hart, Werner Janssen, the Gershwins...
...Grant made $500 a week, but he did not make much headway in pictures. Says he: "They had a lot of leading men over there with dark hair and a set of teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three and a half pictures yearly. He caught Hollywood's eye as a panderer in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett. Then came good comedy leads in The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday. Today Grant...