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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would organized labor, which held the keys to production and another spiral of wage boosts. But labor was restive; there were plenty of warnings about what it might do if prices rose all along the line. Snappish Walter Reuther said that his autoworkers would break every contract and reopen wage negotiations; the C.I.O.'s packinghouse workers gave notice that they would demand a cost-of-living bonus in their new wage contract talks next month...
...profiteering, the Senate's Mead Committee began beating the bushes and flushed game all over the field. Prize exhibits from the first week's walk through the underbrush was a pair of brothers named Murray W. and Dr. Henry M. Garrson, who had gone into war contract work with less than a shoestring, come out with a fortune. Flushed with them, if not actually part of the herd, was a U.S. Congressman...
When war came the Garrson boys were ready with a good scheme for quick-&-easy profits. With no assets except a borrowed letterhead they established the Erie Basin Metal Products Co. Then they grabbed a $3,000,000 contract from the Chemical Warfare Service to produce mortar shells, and went to town...
...contract for the first U.S. appearance of Eva Prchlikova, a sensational young Czech soprano. An Army captain in Frankfurt who had heard her sing told Krueger about her, arranged a quick audition in an empty Army mess hall. She sang for two hours, scorned warm-up and launched confidently into the "Queen of the Night," Mozart's test-piece from The Magic Flute.* Krueger signed her on the spot...
Before he even took a screen test, Smoky was signed to a seven-year acting contract at a beginning salary of $300 a week. Actor MacMurray's gross earnings for the year 1944, reported fortnight ago by the U.S. Treasury...