Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore 1734 white workers were trained and placed while 100 colored workers were given training but not placed. In Harlem only 70 from a training course of 1400 got jobs. Especially notorious has been the discrimination by both management and A.F. of L. unions in the aircraft industry. Glenn L. Martin with a half billion dollars of defense orders hasn't a single Negro in 18,000 workers. Curtiss-Wright has disproved the familiar and flimsy excuses of other plants by employing a large number of Negroes and finding them more than satisfactory...
...clock on Sunday morning two British cruisers and two destroyers, steaming in darkness off the sole of Italy's boot, met what they were looking for. That afternoon a Maryland (Glenn Martin) reconnaissance plane had spotted an Italian convoy of eight ships with an escort of destroyers leaving Taranto bound for Libya...
...plot's not much and the girls aren't much, but the whole theatre swayed back and forth when Glenn Miller hit his stride on Chattanooga Choochoo and the Nicholas Brothers and Sister started clicking their heels on the back of a cardboard train panting for cottonland...
Milton Beric, who plays publicity man for Glenn's band, is almost, but not quite, as funny as he tries (hard) to be. Glenn Miller makes up for his dead-pan acting with some hit-paraders. The second feature, "Parachute Battalion," is a respectable thriller and filler...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels); William N. Reynolds, its executive committee chairman; Board Chairman S. Clay Williams, former NRA chairman; President James A. Gray; Vice President James W. Glenn; Sales Manager Edward A. Darr...