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...weeks ago, 16 of the 19 U.S. airlines demanded wide open competition in postwar international airlines (TIME, July 26), started spade work to prevent Pan American Airways from regaining the peacetime monopoly it once...
There will be no postwar public construction unless plans are made now, warned efficient, spade-calling Major General Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator in Atlanta this week. Said he, "Precious little planning has been done. . . . There are plenty of ideas floating around, plenty of pretty pictures and idle fancies -you can't build on idle fancies...
...hoarse Frederick Riebel Jr. juggled his 275 pounds above a spade in bucolic Bucks County, Pa. last week while grinning workers watched. Professionally he scooped up a spadeful, started a housing project for Brewster Aeronautical Corp. workers. The Brewster workers thought their president did well. Brewster stockholders are also pleased with Riebel's performance. At the annual meeting, a stockholder moved a vote of confidence in present Brewster management. The chorus of "ayes" was the first time in many a bomber's moon there has been enough confidence in Brewster to shout...
Burly, two-fisted, plain-spoken Carroll Duard Alcott, 42, started it. Before he joined Cincinnati's WLW at Pearl Harbor time, Alcott was renowned throughout the Far East for his spade-calling broadcasts from Shanghai. Almost every time he opened his mouth Tokyo clenched its little fists...
...with Los Angeles' dancing public. Professional Cuban dancers, featured on Cugat's programs, frightened the average nightclubber with the intricacy and speed of their steps. Shrewd Xavier Cugat gradually slowed up the professionals, lured the amateurs to try a step or two. After five years of spade work, he had made Los Angeles the most rumbatic of U.S. cities, and Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria beckoned with a fat contract...