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...same criticism has been flung at $1-a-year men in Washington. Last week it exploded again in a report of the Senate's Truman Committee...
Early this spring a certain Robert R. Guthrie resigned from a WPB post because, he said, WPB $1-a-year men generally were putting a brake on all-out war production by resisting all-out conversion of civilian industries to war work. In particular, Guthrie named Philip D. Reed, $120,000-a-year chairman of General Electric, $1-a-year head of the Bureau of Industry Branches. WP Boss Donald Nelson, embarrassed by the fuss, asked the Truman Committee to investigate...
...a-year plant superintendent with a $50,000 bonus had developed new operations methods that cut direct labor costs 10%, effected a $750,000 annual saving despite pay increases...
...a-year vice president and secretary got his $50,000 bonus for developing a welding manual that became "the Bible of the welding industry...
When Manhattan's PM appeared on Boston newsstands with an anti-Hearst series, Reporter Reilly finagled through the City Council a city ordinance requiring newsboys and street stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street...