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...most extraordinary thing about Pacific Huts is the way its men work. Recruited from nearby Venetian-blind, box and ladder factories, they stick to their jobs like leeches, work so fast they seem to be dogtrotting. Yet their pay (which averages $1 an hour) is no match for Seattle's shipyards. Moreover, Pacific Huts' absentee rate is a minuscule 1.5%, compared to about 8% at Boeing Aircraft's vast plant half a mile down the road, and about 4% for the region...
...seven-cylinder Warner radial engine was installed, the body was decently covered, slicked with windshield and windows. In tests, the Army found that it would do all that Igor Sikorsky had promised and more. It can hover so steadily that once an army man let down a ladder, got out on the ground, got back and pulled the ladder in after him before the pilot sent his craft aloft again...
Beading its nearest competitor by a cool $90, Kirkland House bond sales for the past week totalled $240.40, while Winthrop was runner-up with $152.75. Adams ranked third of the Houses with $97.60, Lowell next with $26.15; while Dunster and Eliot occupied the lowest rungs of the bond sales ladder with $22.35 and $18.75 respectively. Leverett was not totalled...
...Hard Way (Warner) is the old Hollywood story about a harpy who claws her way up the ladder to fame, riches and disaster. The plot, a corny tale of heartbreak and backstabbing in the show business, has almost no surprises. But thanks to the adept treatment of this routine material, The Hard Way is a fine film, one of the best thus...
...choice of difficult routes to Tokyo: 1) by overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...