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...Hollywood's old, closed circle of major producers the conversation was heavy with trouble. An alarming number of actors, company-bound producers, directors, and even $2,500-a-week writers wanted to become independent producers, too. The reasons were plain: 1) taxes had taken the meaning, and the lure, out of high salaries; 2) the booming war market had made it a near impossibility to lose money on any cinema, no matter how inept; 3) the discontented wanted more creative freedom than is offered by the major producers...
...been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller Ohio towns...
Georgia's grey Walter F. George had a considerably more modest plan to cushion the U.S. worker against a postwar depression. He proposed that each state fix its own scale of unemployment compensation (which at present ranges from $2-a-week minimum in Alabama to $22-a-week maximum in Connecticut), and that the states continue to foot the bill. The Federal Government would step in only if a state could not meet all payments; then it would lend, not give funds...
Bocage Country. Besides the $35-a-week top, the Murray-Kilgore group had plenty of explosive ammunition. They also proposed a vocational training program for idle workers, with a top $35-a-week allowance while going to school, a travel allowance to return to a peacetime job or to get a new job, and innumerable new Federal bureaus to handle unemployment machinery. Shrewdly, Walter George captured the most sure-fire of this ammunition-a modified educational training program and a travel allowance (not exceeding $200)-and added it to his own bill...
...Indianapolis, 22-year-old Juanita Wilson, a self-confident blonde, with some money in the bank (she could have saved more) and plenty of clothes in her closet, quit her $32-a-week war job at the R.C.A. plant. A beauty operator before the war, she now took a $20-a-week job in Paul's Beauty Shop on East Michigan Street. Said Juanita: "I just figured I wanted to have something solid to stand on after the war, something that won't blow up overnight...