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Wake Island (Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix; TIME, Sept...
...participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best not to look like...
...Baltimore plane factory so many workers recently broke out with rashes that the disorder was known as the "Bendix Itch...
President Roosevelt, who had waited weeks before intervening in the Federal Shipbuilding dispute at Kearny or the Air Associates dispute at Bendix, waited only three days before he ordered the Navy to take over General Cable's Bayonne plant. The strikers cheered loudly and said this was just what they wanted...
...Bendix Aviation made downward adjustments in Government contract prices to the tune of $73,354,000, with more to come. Savings resulted from huge orders for aircraft parts and accessories, permitting mass-production methods. Bendix President Ernest Robert Breech told his department heads last fall: "Get this profits thing right. We don't want to be criticized for making too much profit on Government business...