Word: engels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everett Marshall's powerful baritone, used to the role of Dr. Engel, the Prince's tutor when he goes to Heidelburg for one year of freedom before becoming King, dominates the stage the few times he appears on it; he gives a fine rendition of the operetta's them, "Golden Days;" but a little less repetition of it in the beginning would have made the song more moving near the end when it reminds the Prince, who has become King of his days as a student...
Long famed in Congress as a tough investigator who tracks down the facts, bulldogs them, ropes them and brings them in, Representative Albert J. Engel has brooded since 1939 about Army extravagance.* Five months ago he got in his automobile, drove 4,500 miles, snooped through 47 war plants. Last week Fact-Finder Engel reported: both war plants and labor are making too much money at the taxpayer's expense...
...contractors in Engel-inspected plants made "excessive profits" (up to 53% after payment of taxes) during the last two years. Still greater profits were made by Government-financed corporations "earning profit on a large Government capital, but distributing that profit to a small group of stockholders who have very little capital invested...
...Machine-gun assemblers get $4,700 to $8,740 a year. (Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, in charge of U.S. Army supply, gets $8,500. U.S. soldiers and sailors, at $50 a month, must take down and assemble machine guns, blindfolded.) Moralized Mr. Engel: "On the other hand, we attempt to freeze a half-million coal miners at wage rates of $1,200 to $1,700 a year...
Warned Representative Engel: "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against his Government, it is excess profits . . . on invested capital, and excess wages paid to labor. . . . If Socialism or Communism ever gets a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime profiteers in the ranks of labor and industry...