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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from brute stubbornness to a rooted belief in the individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...
...Commission has arranged to build eleven new plants to make powder, high explosives, ammonia, and to load shell cases. Five more are planned. Said Mr. Knudsen: "I need not tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...
...public and most Congressmen simply do not understand the time element in industrial production of munitions. They must be told again and again until they do understand why it takes time to build tanks, guns and planes. They must realize that wars are won in factories years before the conflict in the field...
When Diamond Jim felt twinges of conscience about squandering money on actresses, Dr. Young suggested that he might build a Johns Hopkins urologic hospital as a "monument." In May 1915, the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute war, dedicated, and Diamond Jim, ablaze with jewels, was a one-day monument in person...
...ought to know! The Hoosier Hammer, who stands an even six feet and displays the perfect build of a Greek statue when stripped of his football paraphernalia, carried the ball officially on 21 of the Maize and Blue plays. He gained a total of 123 yards, averaging 5.85 yards every time he carried the oval...