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...money he was used to. Yet OPM promised to solve one problem by dishing its defense orders out in bigger hunks. Most of Detroit's munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture...
...that question became academic this week. For Chairman Frank's curtain line, SEC decided (as Wall Street long feared it would) that all utility securities under the Act shall henceforth be subject to competitive bidding, whether the bankers are "affiliates" or not. This decision meant that the coming spate of security distributions that must accompany the breakup of the holding companies will be an investment bankers' free-for-all-and an open field for new regional utility combinations too. SEC defended itself against two frequent assertions: 1) that enforced securities auctions "interfere with free enterprise" (Massachusetts, cradle...
...spate of messages addressed to Berlin, some were earnest, some were elfin. A couple of Harvard professors wanted to know what Hitler's peace terms would be and what guarantee Germany would give to insure just distribution of food sent to Belgium. Many demanded to hear a description of Hitler's funeral, and gibes at Nazi racial laws grew tedious with repetition. Sample whimsies: "God save the King-and God help you," "We are all pure-bred Aryans here. Please let us have some more Japanese music," "Why is Göring so fat and the rest...
...lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book With Lawrence in Arabia, the first of a spate of works bearing his name...
...doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him. Only attempt at humor in the whole spate of U. S. medical journals is the collection of stale, smutty jokes which have trailed with dismal repetition through the Journal's "Tonics and Sedatives" column for the past 20 years...