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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airplanes. Ever since he told reporters that he could build 1,000 airplanes a day, Henry Ford's return to the aircraft business (he stopped making Ford tri-motors in 1932) has been waited for. Last week he and his production chief, tough, profane Charles E. Sorensen, were stroking their chins over a variety of projects- high-powered Rolls-Royce engines, shot-welded Duralumin fuselages, even plastics. From London, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Air, announced that Ford would make 6,000 Rolls-Royces for Britain; from Washington, Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen announced that Ford would make...
...build, assemble, transport, give, That England, France and we may live . . . Lest . . . we be left to fight alone...
...products for this country, then obviously some other system should be tried. . . . It is on this point that the liberal and the reactionary really find their issue: The liberal believes that the purpose of Government is to make men free and, thus having freedom, men will be able to build up a productive and prosperous society. The reactionary may desire, with equal sincerity, a prosperous society, but he believes it can be achieved only by the concentration of political or economic power." By this standard, Communists no less than Fascists are reactionary; New Dealers ("who are not Communists...
...Navy would certainly have to be doubled to risk simultaneous war in both the Atlantic and the Pacific (without the aid of the imperiled British Fleet). The President this week proposed to build 84 aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines for Atlantic service. Eventual cost...
...week, Cities Service men heard an SEC lawyer named Frank Field sound off on what integration means to him. His view: concentrating either on its Colorado or its Ohio properties as a nucleus, Cities Service ought to sell its scatterated units in Washington, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and build up Colorado or Ohio with the proceeds...