Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ghostwriters Bureau will tackle almost any topic. "We write it-YOU sign it" is their slogan. Ghosts Baer & Woods ex-newspaper reporters, do only the simpler forms of ghost writing: goodwill speeches, letters-to-the-editor, sales letters, etc. Other work they farm out on a fee basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs...
...General Motors stockholders last week went the corporation's report for the first six months of 1937. It covered the most exciting six months in GM history. During the March quarter the No. U. S. motormaker was tied up in knots by the youthful United Automobile Workers of America. During the June quarter GM was harassed by almost daily wildcat strikes unauthorized by the union. Both GM and the union are freshmen in the art of collective bargaining, and for both the second quarter proved an expensive education-for GM in profits, for the union in prestige...
...sales were also up but profits again were down, from $140,000,000 in the first half of 1936 to $110,000.000 in the first half of 1937. Higher material costs accounted for part of GM's unfavorable showing but Labor was blamed for the rest. The GM report, in the words of Financial Editor Carlton A. Shively of the New York Sun, was "an appeal to the public on labor problems...
...before Mr. Sloan released his tract, another report from another freshman in modern labor relations-U. S. Steel Corp. -published June quarter earnings. Without strife or struggle Big Steel came to terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits...
Opening of the story is a falsified military report by the narrator, a French officer, concerning the death of Lieutenant De Queslain in a duel with a Serbian captain. The rest of the story, told by De Queslain to the narrator the night before his death, unravels the real story behind the duel...