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...sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...
...actual output due to a huge drain on inventories. When the President, touring the Washington shopping district last fall, exhorted shopkeepers to hide their "luxuries" in the attic, he was simply responding to the statistical fact that in October and November retail sales were practically at an alltime peak. And, at Christmas, buying was bigger and more lavish than at any time in the country's history...
...paralysis when gasoline rationing began. A year ago the auto industry had 500,000 workers, only a fraction of them at war work. Now it has 660,000, with 95% of them at war jobs. The industry produces 60-70% more than it ever did in peacetime-and the peak is still six months away...
...Gross income is about $15.6 billion, a billion more than the World War I peak...
...worthy plan to ease the railroad manpower shortage came last week from, of all places, the powerful Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Their idea: to register all railroad men periodically unemployed at off-peak times on their own roads, for emergency work on nearby railroads where lack of manpower threatens to delay movement of war shipments. Under the scheme the workers would retain their seniority standing with their old railroad but would work under the pay rates and regulations of the railroad temporarily hiring them...