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...year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...
...armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production for the U.S. civilian will benefit little at first...
Though not from Charlotte, the commanding officer is one of the Evac's favorite characters: he is a non-medical Army man, Colonel Rollin L. Bauchpies of Mauch Chunk, Pa., who calls the hospital's venereal disease section "Casanova." The enlisted men of the unit are mostly New Englanders. They come in for a lot of Mason-Dixon Line ribbing...
Unwrapping a package mailed to them last week, Cleveland OPA officials found a cooked pork chop inside. With it was a letter from an indignant Buffalo businessman. He had ordered a chop in a restaurant, and had been served the minuscule chunk enclosed, which weighed less than two ounces. OPA officials got busy on the case, pausing only to issue a hasty plea to irate citizens: just tell us about it, never mind sending the evidence...
...Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, they had fought a bitter minor battle. The War Department had plumped for the use of rayon cord in synthetic tires in place of cotton. The politicos, ever-sensitive in their cotton fibers, worried about the South's loss of a good chunk of its domestic cotton market. Then, last week, the Senate's Truman Committee mightily boosted the cause of cotton cord...