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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...
...reward, Mike Scat got the garbage contract-a circumstance which provided money for him, jobs for his constituents. Mike knew how to take care of his people. Among other things he organized the Dante Alighieri Society, which provided social evenings and entertainment. For a few years before Pearl Harbor, Mike Scat's favorite entertainment was a show in which one of the actors did a takeoff of Haile Selassie...
Since Mike Scat could always be sure of the garbage contract (this year worth $522,000), he never bothered to modernize his equipment. He still uses horse-drawn wagons, a slow method which, even in normal times, permitted him to make no more than two collections a week. It also called for more manpower, therefore more jobs for his loyal Fifth Warders. But last month the manpower shortage finally caught up with Mike Scat...
...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...
Completed articles will be paid for by the Government at contract prices. Money due on unfinished work may be settled by agreement between the contractor and contracting official. Settlements may contain a "reasonable allowance for profit...