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...motor industry, July is a critical month. Then the jigs, dies, tools for next year's models are being completed. As these are finished, the comparatively few, highly skilled men who make them get their seasonal layoff. Until they are finished, work on the new models cannot proceed down the production line. In giant General Motors, the ratio of tool & die makers to the workers who will later produce parts and assemble cars is about...
That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
Since there is "peace," China has been able to obtain U. S. loans (notably $25,000,000 last December from the Export-Import Bank), and to buy U. S. munitions, motor trucks, airplanes. Some economists and humanitarians maintain that Japan has gained more than China by being able to buy at will in the U. S., but Chiang Kai-shek presumably thinks otherwise for he could invoke the Neutrality Act by simply declaring war on Japan. Meanwhile, some two million people have been killed in China, and the U. S. has not been involved...
Twenty-two years later, still on the move (whenever Realtor Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...
...Except for command appearances at Goldwyn parties and entertaining an occasional celebrity, he goes out little, devotes one evening a week to his duties on the executive committee of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He has taken Merle Oberon out to dinner. Although he has transferred his 40-foot motor cruiser, New Moon, to a Pacific anchorage, he has left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks of his employer as Mr. Goldwyn. To an interviewer Cineman Roosevelt recently observed...