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This argument means little to the Blue's young (41), soft-talking, sartorial president Mark Woods. Onetime shipyard worker and NBC vice president, he proposes to embark on a new cycle of U.S. broadcasting with transcriptions as soon as A.F.M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on recordings is resolved. President Woods thinks that war workers and others who cannot listen to the live shows in the evenings should be given a chance to hear them transcribed, that they could also provide the daytime soap operas with the competition they merit...
...first concerned a 700-unit Winfield Park (N.J.) development built to house Kearny shipyard workers, which the Senate's Truman Committee has been investigating. Started in June 1941, the project will cost nearly $4,500,000 v. initial estimates of $3,200,000, is now only half rented because cellars flooded, roofs caved in, floors buckled, kitchen and plumbing equipment failed to turn up, doors "not operating" needed refitting, porches sagged, and -in some cases-furnaces were so installed that heating pipes blocked basement entrances...
Wilmington Hall, which the Los Angeles Housing Authority proudly calls the world's largest hotel for men, threw open its doors Sunday to admit the first of the 3,000 shipyard workers it was built to house-75% single men, 25% married men who live there on weekdays because home is too far away, or will be after Dec. 1 gas rationing. Its 69 frame buildings, community center, cafeteria (seating 900), gymnasium-auditorium (capacity 1,350) are spread over eleven city blocks all within rifle shot of three big shipyards-California, Bethlehem and Consolidated-so that its tenants...
...trouble began last spring in Vancouver, Wash., when it became apparent that a new Kaiser shipyard would boom the town from 18,000 to 60,000. Kaiser brought in 20 doctors to look after his employes. Vancouver's 22 regular doctors tended the rest of the townsfolk. The State branch of the Procurement & Assignment Service went easy on Vancouver, drafted none of its overworked doctors for the Army (two volunteered). But Vancouver needed still more hospital space. So, after Dr. Sidney Garfield, one of the Kaiser doctors, talked it over with the county medical society. Kaiser built a model...
...Washington, D.C. sped Kaiser's Dr. Garfield, where he told Senator Claude Pepper's labor subcommittee that he and his fellow shipyard doctors had been "threatened." Henry Kaiser rushed to Dr. Garfield's aid, bumped heads with Dr. Fishbein. Said Clark County's Dr. Harrison last week: "It's a goddam misstatement that Garfield was 'threatened...