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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What's Wrong? Who was holding up the defense program - capital or labor? -was a question many a citizen could not answer to his own satisfaction...
There was no unequivocal answer. But the U. S. public knew that something was slowing down defense. What that some thing was was answered in scores of ways by columnists, reporters, editorial writers. But, by & large, the nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
Last week a big part of the answer came from the best possible and most unexpected source : hulking, close-mouthed William S. Knudsen. who gave up the $300,000-a-year presidency of General Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its production section. Big Bill Knudsen had kept his mouth shut while the press reported instances of slow delivery on airplanes, tanks & guns, of scrambled priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week, while city health officers struggled with a polluted water system, School Superintendent James M. Spinning announced an answer to the problem of polluted textbooks. Goaded by Rugg-beaters (critics of widely used texts by Columbia Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others...
...Boston trial Lawyer R. M. Morse asked a question 20,000 words long. The witness' answer: "I don't know...