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...weekly paper. Once they did. They and other rank-&-filers (officers were outlawed) made journalistic history in World War I by publishing the A.E.F.'s Stars & Stripes, which ran its circulation to over 500,000, won praise in Pershing's memoirs as the biggest morale builder of the A.E.F...
From now on, every new building in the U.S. must have a federal license. Even if a building is already well under way, even if a builder has every last bolt and nail on hand, it will take a WPB license to complete it. Stocks on hand for nonwar building may be requisitioned for more essential purposes. On Don Nelson's desk, ready for signing some time this week, is a new order that says...
...other British face toward India has been liberal, reformist, seeking to redress imperialism's economic and personal ravages. Steadily through the years India has been championed by such Englishmen as Edmund Burke, who in 1788, speaking of the great Indian empire builder, Warren Hastings, said: "Was there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a man would dare to mention the practices of all the villains, all the mad usurpers, all the thieves and robbers in Asia, that he should gather them all up, and form the whole mass of abuses into one code and call...
Speed was why Todd and Kaiser got together in the first place. When the British in 1940 handed Todd a $100,000,000 rush order for 60 freighters, Todd was already working overtime on its repair business, needed new ways to build the ships. Kaiser, rapid-fire builder of Boulder, Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, was the man they needed-and got. He worked 16-hour days, borrowed whirler cranes and other machinery from Grand Coulee, pounded between California and Washington commuter-fashion. Four months after Kaiser started, bleak mud flats were lofty ways. In January-13 months after...
...Plane-Builder Glenn Martin...