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...announced three months ago, to bring free symphonic music to U.S. small towns by hiring leading symphony orchestras to play at union expense. Petrillo's unemployed union members had viewed the plan skeptically, especially when informed that he was setting aside $250,000 of good union funds to employ musicians who already had good symphony jobs. But Jimmy Petrillo went ahead and put on his first major symphony concert last week in Poughkeepsie...
...Committee abolished one obstacle to economic reconstruction: the law requiring foreign enterprises to be 51% Chinese-owned and to employ a Chinese general manager. Now the welcome sign was officially out for foreign capital under Chinese law (TIME...
...Plan. The Hoffman-C.E.D. idea is to start at the grass roots of private enterprise-with the nation's 2,000,000 employers (90% of whom employ less than, eight men)-and see what can be done about arranging for this production and this employment. If enough businessmen will do their smart part, the sum total may equal the beyond-the-horizon frontier toward which U.S. hopes are directed...
...were gainfully engaged-in & out of Government-in turning out $98 billions of goods and services. Today there are some 62,000,000 and the gross national product is around $150 billions a year. After the war, even assuming that the Services, Government and large-scale public works can employ as many as 8,000,000 men (and that some 4,000,000 men & women stop working), U.S. private industry, including agriculture, will have to find useful jobs for some 50,000,000 men & women, to avoid "intolerable" unemployment. The postwar breadline...
...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...