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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...From its 20,000 employes (average pay: 75? an hour) Lockheed-Vega solicited voluntary pledges of two or more hours of pay per man, planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50% of the cost, despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that the Ambassador use this money toward the purchase of a Lockheed Hudson...
Figuring that $10 a ticket was more than the party was worth, New Mexico's plain-dealing Governor John E. Miles vetoed plans for an inaugural ball to celebrate his second term...
...Reason for their moderation at the banquet table is one of the major phenomena of U. S. national unity-a shotgun wedding between the Defense Commission and big-time coppermen. Cooperating with Commissioners Henderson (prices) and Stettinius (materials), coppermen had accepted the New Deal program on prices-i.e., kept them down. But the remarkable extent of their cooperation became evident only this week...
...Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable the slimmer wriggle. The rest of the activity centres around two Irish song publishers, Calhoun and Harrigan (fat Jack Oakie and thin John Payne), who contribute respectively comic and romantic relief. When Author Pamela Harris' plot pushes them into the A. E. F., the time arrives for America, I Love You, Goodbye Broadway, Hello France...
...critical essays are not for easy readers. Critic Blackmur's key word is responsibility-the responsibility of a writer to be no less than excellent in both matter and manner. Always tortuously, often brilliantly, he applies his implacable test to great and near-great men: Hardy, Yeats, T. E. Lawrence, Melville, Henry Adams, Housman, Thomas Wolfe, others...