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Cleveland's Jack & Heintz, the Katzenjammer Kids of U.S. industry (TIME, April 6, 1942, et seq.) were last week playing a new role. Famed for their fantastic bonuses to "associates" (employes), as well as for their bang-up job of turning out plane equipment, they were putting up a noisy fight to hang on to their money. The War Department had ordered their 1942 profits pared by $7,000,000 ($5,250,000 has already been collected in taxes...
...influence of Boss Petrillo's ban was limited to the popular field, where the biggest producer, Decca, had already signed with the union. Capitalizing on its capitulation, Decca last week put out a bang-up album of all the songs from the Broadway smash Oklahoma!, sung by the original cast. Other records of the month...
When Sterling Drug bought Watkins in 1934, Mr. Brush moved to Affiliated Products (Louis Philippe cosmetics). He did such a bang-up job that American Home, looking around for new blood, decided on him. The quickest way to get him was to buy his company...
...London since 1941 as Franklin Roosevelt's "defense expediter," Harriman became a Lend-Lease liaison officer between the U.S. and Great Britain, did a bang-up job, journeyed to Russia with Winston Churchill to confer with Joseph Stalin. He is said to have made a great impression on the Soviet leader...
Harvard Jazzmen are featuring a group of New York swing festers, namely Frankie Newton, Al Morgan, Arthur Karle, and Pinky Black at their third concert, Saturday. The bang-up affair is being held in the Lowell House Dining Hall, and as usual, any college musicians who care to play may drop around between 2 and 5 o'clock and lend their talents...