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Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...
...Just before war started, the Department of Labor's brand-new index of 28 basic commodities was 100, its cost of living index 100.6, average weekly factory wages $24.53. The commodity index last week hit a high of 152.7; latest figure on cost of living was 105.2, factory wages...
Even with all the improvement in Allison's output, however, it is still far short of the air-cooled horsepower top. Few weeks ago the Army hedged its liquid-cooled bet, put down $56,500,000, the biggest pursuit plane order in its history, for a brand-new plane, the Republic P-47, built around Pratt & Whitney's 2,000-horsepower air-cooled engine. Souped up by a brand-new and secret supercharger, P47 may well be the fastest, highest-riding pursuit plane in the world, with a fighting ceiling above 35,000 feet, a top speed well...
...Carl Brand's book (the 17th publication of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) answers an important question: Why did British labor stand solidly behind its Government while French labor was riddled with disloyalty? His answer: British labor held firmly for reform and against revolution in a 20-year struggle with the Communists, which Author Brand documents in great detail...
...Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front. In 1939 Cripps & Co. were expelled. Brand ends his book with this expulsion which, he believes, gave the Labor Party the unity and firmness to face the war effort...