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...Douglas Aircraft, there were enough good ideas in the first 500 suggestions to hit the jackpot with cumulative savings of 2,000 man-hours a day-enough to build seven big bombers in a year. A new tooling gadget for milling wing spars cut off 15-20 hours; a woman war worker in the lacquer department figured out how to save 90 woman-hours...
...Georgie Auld and Rudy Wallace, respectively, both bands are relatively new, and their choice is in line with the recent Jubilee policy of choosing bands on their way to the top rather than the older organizations. This plan hit the jackpot the last two years with Will Bradley and Bobby Byrne...
...Texas. Its childishly simple but rollicking tune has only 30 notes; to fill out a 32-bar chorus, the melody has to be repeated. With Deep in the Heart of Texas, two newcomers, Lyricist June Hershey and Composer Don Swander (in private life, Mr. & Mrs. Swander), hit their first jackpot. With the royalties from sheet-music sales (200,000 to date) and records (nine versions), the Swanders can now buy the ranch they have dreamed about...
Trend. In Spokane appeared a patriotic slot machine: when a player hits the jackpot with a quarter the machine plays The Stars & Stripes Forever, an attendant hands him a $25 defense bond...
...years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...