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...Orders. Already out of the cupboard is a high priority program known as "phantom orders." These orders, with a current value of $900 million, are full purchase contracts, written up to the last detail, explained to the manufacturer and then locked in his safe. It would take only a telegram from Washington to convert the phantom into a real order and start the goods-machine tools -moving down the production line...
...NIGHTS IN A DANCE' HALL ("By Henriette de Sieyes, Vassar '45") and THE SEX CRIMINAL. These tactics paid off. By last March the Post was selling 389,454 copies a day and was solidly in the black. Last week, helped along by the New York World-Telegram and Sun strike (TIME, June 26), the Post's circulation was topping...
...deadline for the strike was set for 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Yet, after three months of negotiating, neither the New York World-Telegram and Sun, biggest (circ. 600,000) newspaper in the Scripps-Howard chain, nor the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild had entirely given up hope of averting it. For much of the night before the deadline, they had both wrangled over their "final offers." Then they wearily stopped negotiating...
...strike's fourth day, the Guild started paying weekly benefits ranging from $25 to $80 per striker (depending on size of family). Some idle mechanical workers signed on as extra hands at other evening and morning newspapers, which were making advertising hay while the World-Telegram and Sun was behind the strike cloud...
Into Western Union's local office at Bridgeton, NJ. seven weeks ago walked Nelson Stamler, New Jersey's deputy attorney general. He had not come to send a telegram, but to arrest Office Manager Charles Frake, 39. The charge: operating a horse-betting establishment. Records seized by Stamler showed that in one year Frake's office had handled the transmission of $300,000 worth of horse bets by telegraphed money orders to out-of-state bookmakers...