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...most needed to stimulate demand-is the fact that cost accountants figure overhead per unit of output by the simple process of dividing each year's overhead by the number of units sold. This inflates profits in boom years, deepens deficits in bad years. Why not, said Industrialist Sloan, figure overhead costs as a long-term average based on annual productive capacity...
Mindful of all the war contracts Hud son still holds, President A. Edward Barit only commented: "These are war times and we are dealing with the Government. This is no time to stir up a controversy." But many a Detroit industrialist, jittery over the Navy's precipitate action, pressed Washington for a complete explanation. At week's end, Truman Committeeman Homer Ferguson of Michigan was probing the mystery...
...Industrialist Harriman, 51, looked like a good man for the job. Despite his glittering social background Harriman is no playboy. He has worked on a section gang, was a surveyor, once worked as a fireman on the Union Pacific. Now U.P.'s chairman of the board, he is known as one of the most liberal of U.S. industrialists, is also known as a hardheaded businessman who has made (and sometimes lost) millions on flyers...
...minded to lead his people into hazardous foreign adventures." Pedagogue Nicholas Murray Butler had noted "the stupendous improvement which Fascism has brought." Cardinal O'Connell had observed: "Mussolini is a genius." Former U.S. Ambassador to Rome Richard Washburn Child had edited the Duce's My Autobiography. Later, Industrialist My ron Taylor had admired "the successes of Premier Mussolini in disciplining the nation." In 1938 Winston Churchill observed: "Had there been no war, . . . Mussolini would still have been great...
...retired industrialist, Coburn pokes his way into the national capital, where he imperially rents half of a three-room apartment from its attractive occupant. Jean Arthur. He obviously considers himself old enough to be her mother, and thus overrides her misgivings. Behind her back, he then proceeds to sub-sublet half of his half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws...