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...Even if permission is given, the way is thorny. A firm must get licenses to make almost anything; it must find manpower, which will be short till the Japanese war is over; and its products will come under rigid price control. Further, it must be prepared to pay the British income tax, currently 50% of net profits, along with an excess-profits tax (100% for an established company, 90-92% for a new company). There is also a personal surtax "at heavy graduated rates" for executives...
...without the approval of Teamster President Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin, 70, a rough, tough unioneer who dates back to Sam Gompers. (The monthly Teamster usually carries half a dozen articles signed by Uncle Dan.) A correspondent telephoned Tobin, asked about the editorial's authorship. Said Tobin: "Wait till I see it." There was a pause while he did, then: "Sure, I wrote it; my name...
...Commons, cleaners, custodians and councilors have been making weapons of war in the massive vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament, where in 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught among the 36 gunpowder kegs with which he planned to blow up Britain's lawmakers. From 9 in the morning till 9 at night the air-conditioned dungeon hums to the sound of precision machines. Last year the volunteers, garbed in white knee-length coats of a royal ordnance factory, worked 74,000 manhours. This year they plan to work at least as much on secret submarine devices for use against...
...soon, but Tories in general trusted Churchill's political instinct. Two of Churchill's Cabinet intimates-Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) and Brendan Bracken-had insistently urged an immediate election (for fear that Britons' wartime memories would dim). Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second time can ruin a chap...
...manufacturers who will be ready to switch to civilian merchandise are not makers of goods but assemblers. But the makers (manufacturers of steel, chemicals, textiles, etc.), who supply semi-finished goods to the assemblers (manufacturers of automobiles, radios, alarm clocks, etc.), will still be tied up with war work till varying dates and in varying degrees...