Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro authors generally, says Ebony, "are hitting pay dirt," and the royalties of onetime Communist Richard (Native Son, Black Boy) Wright (pictured with his white wife) "make a pretty fat bankroll." Ebony prints Gjon Mill's excellent shots of mixed jam sessions to show how jazz promotes good feeling between whites & blacks, reminds its readers of unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles...
...Right Way. Short, balding Robert Young is trying hard to become the biggest U.S. railroad tycoon since the Union Pacific's Edward Henry Harriman. Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...
When Henry J. Kaiser built his Fontana steel mill in 1942 (on a hog farm in California's San Bernardino County) he borrowed $111.8 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Of this sum he spent $94 million to build the plant, held the balance for working capital...
Working without pay, he operated on the premise that entertainment for servicemen was not only "desirable but essential." He had a big job recruiting entertainers, who were leary of the hardships and pay (the U.S.O., which is subsidized by the National War Fund, pays run-of-the-mill entertainers $100 a week, topflight volunteers $10 a day). But by hook & crook, Lastfogel rounded up thousands of smalltime entertainers. These troupers, formed into small variety companies, were (and still are) the backbone of U.S.O.-Camp Shows...
Despite the smooth clicking of his settlement mill, Bob Hinckley expects to speed up OCS still more. If Japan quits soon the rate will have to reach $4 billion a month; if V-J day does not come for a year, only $3 billion. Both of these settlement goals are so close in sight that Bob Hinckley considers the hardest part of his job done...