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...agreement the Mutual chain will pay 3% of its gross receipts on a blanket license agreement for the first four years, 3½% thereafter until January 1950. Payment on a pay-as-you-play basis was rejected by Mutual on grounds that the bookkeeping would be too complicated...
...terms were a comedown for ASCAP, which before the music war collected at a blanket rate of 5% of gross from the stations, and was asking 7½% from the chains to renew contracts. ASCAP General Manager John Paine reckoned that if extended to the entire industry the new terms would yield some $4,200,000 a year. ASCAP's 1940 revenue ran about $550,000 higher. The contract applies only to network programs. Local affiliates still must sign contracts with ASCAP if they want to use its music on non-network broadcasts...
...local boards follow the recommendation of Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, Deputy Director of Selective Service, they will give blanket deferment to all students above the class of sophomore...
Officials of the University emphasized that the Selective Service Act specifically forbids blanket or wholesale deferments for any institution. They further pointed out that even if the student chooses to request deferment, and the Harvard selective service committee approves, the matter is still in the hands of the local draft board. The latter has full power to decide on the basis of the facts presented in each individual case whether or not the man in question is entitled to deferment...
...President explained that he wanted a framework drafted. He intended to set up the new division by executive order, would finance it with his blanket defense funds, hoped it would not cost much. The President then sent to the Senate a nomination of Coy as director of "a board of investigation and research" authorized by the 1940 Transportation Act. But Washington wiseacres expect the rising young New Dealer to spend his time on much more pressing things than researching "the relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service...