THE AMERICAN ion FEBRUARY, 1947 MAGAZINE HOW TO SOLVE LABOR DISPUTES JUDGE JOHN C. KNOX OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO MEMBERS OF HOSPITALIZATION PLANS 1 | New Sickness and Accident Plan Includes $25 Weekly Benefit Feature Costs Only $12 a Year—Down Payment $2.50 Pays Hospital Benefits For Accidents The 60-year-old North American Accident a small percentage of people are confined to a Insurance Company of Chicago announces hospital—and even then only for a fraction of a new plan that pays $25 a week for 10 the total time they may be disabled. Most peo- weeks for certain specified accidents and ple are confined at home where hospitalization sicknesses. It also pays $25 a week for 4 plans do not apply. The North American Plan weeks for accidents requiring hospital con- pays specified benefits regardless of whether finement. Yet the total cost is only $12 a you are confined to your home or to a hospital. year. (Even this small amount can be paid North American Accident Insurance monthly $2.50 down and $2.00 a month for — Company of Chicago has devoted over 5 months total cost $12.50.) The purpose of — sixty years to the Underwriting of Accident this new Premier Limited Double Duty and Health Insurance. It has paid out over Policy is to bring sickness and accident $39,000,000 to grateful policy holders when protection within the reach of men and they needed help most. North American is women who do not have large savings under the supervision of the Insurance De- with which to meet sudden doctor or hos- partments of 47 States and The District of pital bills, lost income. or Columbia. This new plan also has a double- Men and women who would like full de- indemnity feature covering travel acci- tails about this new plan are urged to write dents. 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In addition, it covers many sicknesses FREE BOOKLET 1 including pneumonia, cancer, appendicitis Premier North American Accident Insurance Company operation, etc., paying the weekly benefits Policy 830 Broad St., Dept. 516. Newark 2. New Jersey Division whether confined to home or hospital. Gentlemen: The entire cost is only $12 a year, for both Please mail me a, copy of your FREE booklet, "CASH OR SYM- men and women between the ages of 15 PATHY." I understand there is no obligation whatever, and that no one will call on me to deliver this booklet. and 64 inclusive. Between the ages of 65 and 75 the cost is only $18 a year. Protects I you 24 hours a day. No reduction in bene- NAME fits regardless of age. No medical examina- tion is required. ADDRESS | Suppose you are now a member of some worthy hospitalization plan . you still need CITY ZONE No STATE this additional protection. Why? Because only IT H E AMERICAN VOL 42 egion NO. 2 FEBRUARY, 1947 MAGAZINE Please notify the Circulation Department, Publications Division, Post Office Box 105"). Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your address. Be sure to give your 1947 >< membership card number and 1 1 1 ) t your new and your old address. western office • 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois EDITORIAL VND ADVERTISING OFFICES • One Pari, Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. EXECUTIVE ANDCONTENTSADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES • Indianapolis 6, Indiana over Drawing By Earl Blossom Paying an Income Tax? By Paul D. Green 9 This article can mean $$$ to you How to Sol\e Labor Disputes Bv Jud»;c John C. Knox 10 The fudge presents the in.se lor compulsory arbitration Speed Queens of the Gulf Stream By S. Kip Farrington, Jr. 12 The fightin'est fish of all is the blue martin Jake Lands the Big One (fiction ) By Hal Burdick 14 A flic/.- oj the wrist, ami Droopy Pants got justice Peace Is a Job for All of Us By Paul H. 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New York The American Legion Magazine — . Evicted from her home in Portland, Maine, a young British war bride, Irene Cody Heatley, commented: "I suppose it really doesn't make much difference as long as you have to lose your home in some way. But at least when we were blitzed in London we weren't worried about it in ad- vance." By Harold Heifer. THOSE CRITICAL VETS WILLIAM WYLER, top Hollywood di- rector and ex-lieutenant colonel in the AAF, learned one lesson in service: don't let a GI or vet catch you in a mistake on military detail, no matter how slight. So when assigned to Samuel Goldwyn's ma- jor film drama of returning veterans, "The Best Years of Our Lives," he took special pains to insure accuracy. For instance, the script at first specified that Dana Andrews' decorations as an 8th Air Force captain-bombardier should include a British DFC. A recheck dis- closed it was unlikely he should have such an award, so it was eliminated. Andrews' uniform was actually tailored at Hobson's in London, much patronized by Army fly- ers during the war. Even the serial num- ber on his B-4 bag (9-727090) was authen- tic; it belonged to a bombardier on the Memphis Belle. In the film Fredric March plays a Ser- geant of the 25th Infantry Division, so it was fitting for him to have the Bronze Star. Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon, Victory Ribbon, combat infantryman's badge, and, on the right breast, the Distinguished Unit Badge. But it took a special phone call to Wash- ington to find the proper position for his Philippine Liberation Ribbon. Then there is the war-weary B-17E on which they hitch a ride to their home town. In some dialogue Andrews describes it as a plane that shuttle-bombed between Italy and Russia. It took three weeks' research to determine that it should therefore be of the 416th Bomb. Sq., 99th Bomb. Gp., 5th Bomb, wing, 15th Air Force. 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