Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the 1940 election, Missouri Democrats tried to pull a fast one. They tried to steal the Governorship from duly elected Republican Forrest C. Donnell, hand it to barrel-chested Democrat Larry McDaniel (TIME, April 14, 1941). The men in the Legislature who worked hard to put the steal over, until the State Supreme Court seated Forrest Donnell, were St. Louis' 19 Democratic State Representatives. Last week, in the face of public and press condemnation, not one of them had yet dared announce that he would run for re-election in November...
...consolidated net earnings were only $439,000 v. $643,000 last year. For a while there was only one picture in production—and a huge operation like R.K.O. needs much more than that to stay in the black. In fact, R.K.O. is scraping the bottom of the barrel again, and Mr. Odium, who got it out of receivership in 1939 was out looking for a $3,000,000 working-capital loan (which he will probably get from New York City's Manufacturers Trust Co.—provided he guarantees...
...along the line through mass-production short cuts: a parts plant lopped 25% off the time Army Ordnance thought it would take to make machine guns; an automaker cut the time scheduled for a British ack-ack gun by four months and evolved a new way of broaching the barrel that cut that operation from 3½ hours to 15 minutes; another parts maker improvised machine-gun equipment that beats regular arsenal machinery by 20-30 times; an automatic cannon that cost $1,200 to make 18 months ago now costs around $600; a new flame-cutting process turned...
...Texas for 85? a bbl., paid $1.65 rail shipping costs, then sold it at a price-fixed $1.80 for a net loss of 70? a bbl. Atlantic Refining showed first-quarter profits of only $1,237,000 ($2,600,000 a year ago), explained that delivery costs per barrel of crude to the refinery have soared 500% in the past year...
...subject of hate came before the Institute when Hollywood's boy wonder, Writer-Director Arch Oboler (Plays for Americans) slouched up to the speaking table, mumbled a compliment for Corwin, and cut loose with the other barrel. "Anger is what people want, and they want hate, the hate of a determined people who are going to kill. . . . The public says: make us angry. We like...