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...panel was busy studying more than 3,000 pages of evidence in the Little Steel case. Steel workers' flat demand was for a $1-a-day boost. Though it will be several weeks before the Board is ready to make its decision, which will have far-reaching effects, Davis made some prophetic observations...
...figures studied in that case did not encourage the belief that all the increased cost of living could be covered by a wage boost. "But neither does that preclude an increase of wages to meet part of the increased costs...
...erred. Mr. Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
...Petroleum Corp. In July 1940 he heard the drone of warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...
...announcement was no surprise. The deal got a boost on Dec. 7 when heroic Doris Miller, Negro messman aboard the Pearl-Harbored Arizona, manned a machine gun, blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. The idea speeded up when Joe Louis handed $89,00 fight proceeds to Navy Relief, was practically clinched when Wendell Willkie urged the Navy to drop its anti-Negro rule...