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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME, you ran an article based on Senator Tobey's recent Textron report. As you state in your article, Tobey certainly had been "gunning for" me, and, as a result, I feel his one-man investigation was completely biased and his report in many respects inaccurate...
...Paragraph 7, you state that the various "fiscal manipulations" of the trusts ". . . gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations." Textron is, of course, not tax free. In fact, as a result, in part, of the financial transactions referred to by you, Textron was able to increase its sales and therefore its taxes, enormously. In 1940, Textron paid less than $60,000 in taxes; in 1947, more than $6,000,000 in state and federal income taxes...
...increased supply brought other changes. The roundabout and expensive conversion deals, through which consumer-goods manufacturers obtained about 1,000,000 tons of steel last year, were no longer necessary. As a result, Republic Steel Corp. closed down three of its Canton, Ohio furnaces used for conversion work. Demand for special steels had also slumped enough to cause Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Crucible Steel Co. to shut down three furnaces each...
...Reed also does well with his interpretation of the physical Bobby Henrey. For once, a child movie actor is made to act with all the awkward, sham-Dling, sleepwalking unawareness that normal children have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...