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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Walter Reuther said: "Normal methods can build all the planes we need-if we can wait until 1942 and 1943 to get them. But the need for planes is immediate and terrifying. We dare not invite the disaster which may come with further delay...
...with the help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence...
Meanwhile, in the U. S., Physicist Cecil Taverner Lane of Yale decided to build a Kapitza liquefier. He sent to Cambridge for blueprints. Unwilling to dismantle the machine for the sake of exact measurements, Cambridge sent only sketches, which showed valves in impossible places and other aberrations. Nevertheless Dr. Lane persevered, correcting the mistakes in the sketches by hunch and logic as he went along. It took him three years, cost $5,000. Last week he announced that he had successfully completed a Kapitza liquefier, was making liquid helium for low-temperature research quickly and safely, and at a cost...
...part of the war as an investment. Each of these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost, the Government to own the plants. Result of this combination of patriotism and restraint: at industry's own request, a large part of the U. S. arms business was in effect nationalized...
...late Federal Theatre Project was the biggest State-subsidized theatre on record. In four years it spent almost enough money to build a battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding...