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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case. The demands appear to be both just and modest; and the striking methods have been reasonably mild. Should the Club refuse the present offer to arbitrate, alumni throughout the nation should bring pressure to bear on its management. The name of Harvard should not be connected with the sort of cutthroat labor practices that such a refusal would make evident...
When the optional system was in operation before the war, a staff of eighteen was required to sort the slips signed for meals and to bill each student individually for the number of meals he ate ever his contract. Since that time, however, the check-off system has been installed which could deal with contract variations with no increase in labor cost. Record could be kept of the number of meals an individual has eaten in a given week in reference to his contract, and he could pay by coupon for those which exceeded the limit...
Pessimist: There are signs of a decline in consumer demand already. . . . Several industries are being pushed in the red by higher costs. . . . This sort of thing might easily start a general downward move...
...Blandings Builds His Dream House (Selznick; RKO Radio), like the original bestseller by FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans...
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...