Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half of the working party (including Cuthbert Clegg, two other owners' representatives, the three public representatives) opposed the key recommendations of the report: 1) a three-year levy on each spindle for a fund which the Government would use to help equip plants with new machines; 2) grouping of small mills into larger, more economical units; 3) shutdown of plants now having idle machines (because of labor shortage), to permit more intensive use of their labor force in modern plants...
...cause of this anti-Judkins feeling is FCCommissioner Clifford Judkins Durr. He fathered the recent FCC report on radio's behavior (TIME, March 18), insisting that radio's business was FCC's business. He has continually demanded better programming-more public service, fewer commercials-and opposed the purchase of stations by corporations with no knowledge of radio. He dissents so often from his fellow commissioners' decisions that it is big news when he votes...
...Bevin indicated rejection of the . . . report...
...Senate last week rose Montana's James E. Murray, wealthy, New Dealing chairman of a special Senate Committee on Small Business. In his hand he had a 359-page report on "Economic Concentration and World War II." Its gist: Big Business, fattened on prime war contracts, was now bigger. He underlined this with a bit of demagogy...
Nobody denied the statistics in the Murray report. But, actually completed in January and based largely on data covering only the years through 1944, it was open to criticism. Big business got the bulk of war contracts because it alone had the tools, technicians and resources to mass produce planes, tanks, etc. War's end and the disposal of surplus plants, notably, aluminum producers, has radically altered this picture in many places. Moreover, small businesses closed by war have reopened. Fortnight ago the Department of Commerce reported a net increase of 400,000 new firms in the last...