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...pitched on rock and shale, where well-digging was slow and inordinately expensive. Result: a month's delay. In New England, where an abundance of lumber could be salvaged from hurricane-felled trees, camp constructions waited for lumber from the Pacific Coast (where lumbermen last week settled a ten-week strike, averting further delays). Contractors working for cost-plus-fixed-fees could afford to snatch labor from nearby rivals who had lump-sum contracts, thus delaying construction at other camps and highlighting the lack of a planned labor supply...
...Fifth Avenue office of Lecture Impresario William Colston Leigh next morning Newspapermen Knickerbocker and Sheean turned the tables on their own profession: granted an interview to the press. Like visiting diplomats (Sheean this week starts a ten-week lecture tour, Knickerbocker next week starts a four-month tour), they sat behind Mr. Leigh's massive desk and answered questions, while a dozen reporters leaned against the walnut-paneled walls...
...best ten in the world, has lived from hand to mouth for a year. When it needed money at the beginning of the war, its conductor and occasional angel, Sir Thomas Beecham (pills), said bitterly that all he could think of was to appeal to the Germans. But Sir Thomas succeeded during the winter in raising ?2,000. By midsummer that was nearly gone, and Philharmonic men began pooling their resources. Then appeared a new angel: Jack Hylton, popular dance-band leader. He guaranteed salaries and overhead-assumed a total contingent liability of ?10,000-for a ten-week tour...
...bewildering job. The Board had announced that it wanted 10,000 men, either 1) employed mechanics, or 2) unemployed (registered with the State Employment Service) with some machine experience, to be put through ten-week brush-up courses for work in U. S. armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were...
...week's end Mr. Studebaker emerged from his conference with a plan to run the nation's vocational schools on double and triple shifts, starting this summer. Some 600 schools straightway prepared to give ten-week courses of training. 40 hours a week, to 150.000 youngsters and unemployed oldsters. To pay the cost ($100 a student), President Roosevelt signed a Deficiency Appropriation Bill appropriating...