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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bluster & Ballyhoo. What these facts proved was that bluster and ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...
...Arnold picked Newcomer Roosevelt to do this job was not made clear.) Over the violent objections of General Echols and his boss, Barney Giles, chief of air staff, Elliott Roosevelt had insisted on the XF-II. "Hap" Arnold put through a $50 million contract for 101 of them, although later he scaled it down to three trial models for $22 million...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
...Records, they were all set to spin some doggerel of their own, but Columbia wanted them to do Open the Door, Richard instead. They had 15 minutes to work out an arrangement. It sold 650,000 copies. The Three Flames have now been signed to a five-year recording contract with Columbia. They are making plans to let Paris in on the act next February...
...Late. For the coal industry, the plea came too late. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., the country's largest producer of bituminous coal, had already raised its prices an average of 73? a ton. But Chairman George M. Humphrey, who had helped negotiate the wage contract, told Senator Robert A. Taft's Joint Committee on the Economic Report that the rises might prove temporary. He promised to reduce prices by Aug. 15 if costs rose less than 73? a ton, absorb the difference if they rose more. Pittsburgh Consolidation's first-quarter earnings-up some 40% over...