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...Giants. The huge U.S. corporations did very nicely. General Motors, No. 1 war contractor, produced during the second quarter a whopping $832,275,000. Its net went up to $36,316,000, almost 50% over last year when G.M. was still struggling to convert to war. (This was still a far cry from the $53,580,000 G.M. made in bonanza 1941.) Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 war baby, gained nearly 10% to earn $6,600,000 on gross billings of $490,000,000. Du Pont, with an 18% increase in sales, turned in a 27% increase in net after paying...
Meanwhile, practically every U.S. corporation with even a trace of war business reissued a familiar warning: until the U.S. Government gets around to renegotiating his contracts, and the U.S. Congress gets around to fixing his 1943 taxes, no war contractor can be sure what his profits will finally...
Bill Jack v. Adolf Hitler (MARCH OF TIME). Ohio's war contractor William S. Jack (TIME, Dec. 14) of Jack & Heintz, Inc. is a man who has achieved the almost inconceivable. He has made 7,500 factory hands ("associates") work twelve hours a day seven days a week-and like it. Just why they like it, why Bill Jack is so popular with his "associates," so unpopular with rival contractors, is the subject of this short but impressive documentary of a day in the Jack & Heintz factory (automatic pilots and airplane starters...
Long shots: Lieut. Governor Rodes Kirby Myers, 43, who, like his friend Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, owns a swimming pool given him by Ben H. Collings, Louisville contractor. Way behind: John J. Thobe, 67, a bearded perennial, who has been running unsuccessfully but doggedly for office for 43 years...
...Truman war-watchdog committee exploded in a new report, this time on a half-dozen phases of U.S. aircraft production, with a special shelling reserved for Curtiss-Wright Corp., second largest U.S. war contractor (first: General Motors...