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Franklin Roosevelt began the defense program in the belief that the abnormal defense effort could be superimposed lightly on the normal economy. Nelson disagreed from the beginning: he saw the program as a basic resurgence and reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate...
Bigger trouble and worse confusion-a confusion that still exists, but which both sides have sincerely tried to keep out of the press-has come in a long internecine war between the New-Dealers and the businessmen $1-a-yearlings. The New Dealers had some basic beliefs: that social gains must be preserved, that all present production was inadequate, that shortsighted industrialists had carried on a sit-down strike that, if continued, would bring the U. S. to a ruin like France's, or at least to a brink like Britain's. They pointed to Passamaquoddy...
...military courtesy (Don't salute an officer in public places or with bundles in your arms), the care and maintenance of small arms, scouting and patrolling, map reading, many another basic military subject, are you-and-me subjects to the Soldier's Handbook. It all winds up with care of the soldier himself (brush teeth twice a day, see the doctor if you feel ill) and a glossary of common military expressions, some hangovers from World...
...Army, which will need 186,000 trucks and motorcars when it reaches its basic strength of 1,400,000 officers and men, found last week that it had to take a crack at Henry Ford, lest Ford's fight with C. I. O. get the Army embroiled with labor. Recently the Army invited automakers to make competitive bids on a big slice of its truck business: 11,781 half-ton trucks to be used for field radio centres, reconnaissance cars, ambulances, etc. Last week the War Department announced that the order had gone not to the low bidder...
Lodged in the university-operated Carolina Inn, the visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another...