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Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...
...Alcohol. The famed Baruch rubber report handed oilmen the big job of butadiene production for Buna S (75% butadiene plus 25% styrene equals Buna S.) Oilmen were to turn out 65% of all U.S. butadiene production. The remainder was to come from the alcohol process, which was loudly damned as a farm-bloc plot to use up surplus grain...
When a solution seemed finally impossible, the hot potato was tossed over to Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch and his assistant, ex-Wall Street Banker John Milton Hancock. The two cooled it off in just two months and two days. Then the Baruch-Hancock combination presented Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes with a contract-cancellation clause, ready-made to fit almost all fixed-fee contracts. Promptly Czar Jimmy ordered it put into effect. Its two main points...
...that problem Baruch and Hancock are now training their artillery. They hope to work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...
...spring of this year the manpower shortage was everywhere: a half-dozen Congressional committees were howling, the War Manpower Commission listed 36 acute labor areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt called on his top drawer-Messrs. Byrnes, Leahy, Baruch, Hopkins and Rosenman-for an answer to the new problem. There came out long tables of nondeferrable occupations, threats about "work-or-fight," 48-hour-week ukases...