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...President Walter Fuller reported progress in N. A. M.'s survey of production facilities. Of 20,000-30,000 manufacturers reporting, two-thirds as yet had no contracts or even subcontracts for defense. Yet they were prepared for them, "ready to abandon 'business as usual...
...About Malta: "It has held out amazingly but we will have to abandon it for strategic reasons...
...stage. The woman and one of the men began to posture in a slow dance. The other man inserted himself between the couple, reared up impassively, slithered like Bill the Lizard down the male back to the floor. That over, the three handed around arms and legs with poised abandon. In the pit, the orchestra sounded tentative about what sounds it would make next, a little anxious about what it would hear next from the solo violinist, who was worming a long, crawling melody from his fiddle...
...question, a big one to answer, had been clearly raised last week by isolationists. Said Mr. Roosevelt: "The United States has no right or reason to encourage talk of peace, until the day shall come when there is a clear intention on the part of the aggressor nations to abandon all thought of dominating or conquering the world...
Meantime the U. S. Navy felt no such pains in the head. It has bought an Allison-powered plane or two to keep up with the development parade but has stuck to the air-cooled engine for its fighter designs. Result of the Navy's unwillingness to abandon one design for another is that its newest fighter, the Vought-Sikorsky F4U (TIME, Dec. 9), is the fastest airplane built in the U. S.; its 2,000-h.p. air-cooled engine has power to burn...