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Specialized. In Baltimore, Contractor Christian P. Sorensen advertised for bricklayers and got no response, advertised a second time for left-handed bricklayers and was swamped with answers from right-handed ones pretending to be lefthanded...
...Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...
Before his day in office the racket had been haphazard in the extreme-non-uniformed fire department inspectors had simply demanded whatever they thought a contractor would pay. But Moran put things on a business basis. He put fire inspectors in uniform, doubled their take-home pay by matching their salaries with graft money...
...protect the honor of the fire department, no inspector was ever allowed to certify an unsafe burner or to wink at a leaky tank; contractors were forced to comply with the law before a bribe was accepted. If a contractor refused to pay, nobody threatened him; the collector simply waited for cold weather to jar him into paying...
...film's contrived script hits its characters with virtually everything that the Korean War can inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...