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...score of pictures produced last season Mr. Kennedy found that "camera work began on the average 20 days after the starting date set." On 14 features the cost of such delays in terms of idle artists' salaries alone amounted to $23,000 each. On one picture no less than 19 writers were engaged in a desperate attempt to express an inarticulate producer's ideas. Nearly one-half of Paramount's total studio overhead of $5,500,000 last year represented provisions for losses on stories and scenarios later abandoned and artists' salaries for idle and excessive...
...Industrial Organization] flouted the decision of the last convention of the A. F. of L. . . . and prevented the Executive Council from carrying out the convention's instructions 'to inaugurate, manage, promote and conduct an organizing campaign among the iron and steel workers at the earliest possible date. . . .' The sum total achieved by the Committee for Industrial Organization thus far is nothing whatever except division, discord and confusion within the ranks of organized labor.'' Back slugged the strong and scornful leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, not with plaintive generalities but with crushing facts. Said...
With monotonous regularity the Securities & Exchange Commission continues to impress upon news readers the fact that corporation executives make a lot of money. Little has been done to give SEC's flow of fat figures any real business meaning. Most scholarly salary study to date was made by Economist John C. Baker in the Harvard Business Review last winter. Sampling 100 corporations great & small, Economist Baker discovered, among other things, that in 1929 U. S. management salaries averaged 6.6% of earnings, that in the five years through 1932 they averaged 10.8%. Last week, two more salary compilations were published...
Both Gar Wood Industries and Gar Wood's expensive motorboat hobby date from 1911 when Gar Wood, then an automobile distributor in Duluth, Minn., thoughtfully observed a big truck being dumped by a hand crank. Setting to work, he invented a hydraulic hoist to dump trucks by power, founded a company to make it. His invention made him rich...