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...people were on the Pacific theater. They learned that a month earlier the Navy had blasted the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. At home they were embroiled in a heated fight over abolition of the 40-hour week. Robert Guthrie, WPB's textile division head, accused $1-a-year men of preventing total conversion of industry to war, resigned in a huff. (The last car had rolled off Detroit's assembly lines...
Moore got into ship-engine building after years as a successful West Coast distributor of machine tools and a short stretch spent in Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore...
...Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most of their $222-a-year board and tuition. The other part is a school for farmers' families-papa, mama and all the kids...
...with a Vision. When he came home half a dozen cities claimed Ace Rickenbacker as a native son. There was always a $10,000-or $12,000-a-year job with an automobile or aviation company waiting for Rickenbacker; he shuttled between the two. He also took over as operator of the Indianapolis Speedway; in his spare time he wrote adventure strips (Hall of Fame of the Air, Ace Drummond). In 1938 he found his real niche as the hard-driving president of Eastern Air Lines...
...reviving the idea of a $25,000-a-year ceiling, first proposed last April, Franklin Roosevelt seemed to be inviting administrative headaches. Observers guessed that it could be enforced only by refusing to let companies deduct very large salaries as costs on their own tax returns...