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...tough man with a dollar. He is the only Cabinet member who tiptoes about his Department turning off electric lights and running water fountains; his WPA was managed on a theory of Federal economy directly opposite to that of Harry Hopkins' WPA. But he has long reserved special wrath for a widespread business practice: submitting identical bids on Government contracts. Long ago Mr. Ickes discovered, with a Donald-Ducklike squawk, that there is almost no such thing as a low bidder; on many contracts all the bids were identical to the penny for hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Along 1,200 miles of Detroit streets not a streetcar or bus moved for four days. Industrial plants on the sprawling city's outskirts, chockablock with defense orders, were slowed down because some employes could not get to work. Traffic was disrupted, accidents increased. Detroiters howled with wrath, but were helpless. They thumbed rides, went to work on roller skates, on bicycles-built-for-two (see cut). A.F. of L. and C.I.O. were fighting for control of the transit workers, and while they fought Detroit got along as best it could...
...Nominally called to support Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, the meeting centered its fire almost exclusively on the Tribune. Not since 1936 election-night crowds burned Tribunes in the middle of State Street and rotten-egged the Tribune building had Chicagoans erupted in such hot anti-Tribune wrath...
...Lear was a first sergeant before he was an officer, and what he had to tell the 110th's officers sizzled with first sergeant's wrath. When all the burning words had been said, Ben Lear told the convoy to move on, that it would hear from him after it got back to its home station at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, 145 miles away...
...conservative of the A.F. of L.'s conservative hierarchy, had said he would, and by gum he did. The pickets were A.F. of L. machinists who had shut down eleven San Francisco shipyards in the midst of a $500,000,000 Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking boilermakers, painters went through the lines with him. Next day the U.S. Navy did its first convoying, when Captain W. P. Gaddis headed a convoy...