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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...
What can be done by voluntary cooperation, well oiled with cash, was demonstrated last week. RFC announced a loan of $92,000,000 to Wright Aeronautical Corp., which will build a new aircraft engine plant near Cincinnati, upping U. S. engine capacity by 12,000 per year. In return Wright Aeronautical Corp. guaranteed to deliver to the Army 20,115 aircraft engines in 1941-42, and gave the Army an option on 20,115 more. Wright Aeronautical Corp. presumably expects to repay a good part of the loan from profits on the orders. Mr. Knudsen's task this week...
...Conference plan for keeping conscripts happy is simply to provide good entertainment. Usually pretty highbrow, the directors do not intend to try to force Greek drama on the soldiers. With plenty of music, roaring shows, the Conference sees a chance (with Government cooperation) to build up interest in good American theatre...
Socio-psychologist Shea suggested a complicated cure. Since hillbillies do not like recreations foisted on them by outside do-gooders, he would persuade community leaders to build their own recreation centres, with movies, dancing, shooting ranges, horseshoe-pitching grounds, pine sticks for whittling, brass cuspidors...
With Japan back at her tiresome game of arming with U. S. materials-this time in the very week when President Roosevelt signed a bill to build a two-ocean Navy-U. S. steelmen (especially little steelmen) began to grumble again. How could they be expected to expand production for Defense, they asked, if the "damn-japs" were to be allowed to diddle the scrap price, perhaps clean out the country's junk yards in the process? They pointed out that the West Coast, where scrap consumption is certain to grow with expansion for Defense, has encountered scrap shortages...