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Split practically evenly over the question of disassociation with the ASU, the Student Union here is temporarily here de combat until the realignment is completed following tabulation of the referendum now under...
...hour for American undergraduates is not approaching--it is here." In his call he specifically stigmatized as efforts to involve the United States in war the plan to train Canadian pilots on American soil, the proposed sale of "flying fortresses," and the recent dispatch of fifty naval destroyers for combat service in England...
...almost 6,000 light (13-ton) and medium (30-ton) tanks, 1,750 scout cars, 350 combat cars, fleets of trucks, Bill Knudsen has doled out $306,411,280 worth of contracts. Chrysler is building a $20,000,000 plant which should be pouring out mediums within a year. American Car & Foundry's pre-defense light-tank assembly line is rolling out five a day, and Baldwin Locomotive is experimenting with some horrendous 50-tonners which some day will come crunching down its assembly line...
...landing of troops at Haiphong, but the drive from the China border was carried to the enemy with energy. Tokyo newspapers hailed the "peaceful penetration." French authorities put aside the honey and brought on the acid: "Anyone coming across the border in the middle of the night in combat formation and using arms is hardly friendly...
...year. Its expansion has been rapid but lateral-chiefly in floor space and men. Fixed costs per unit do not fall very fast that way. Last week Scripps-Howard Columnist Ernie Pyle described a trip through Buffalo's vast Curtiss-Wright plant, No. 1 U. S. producer of combat planes. Each of the 154,000 rivet holes in a P-40 was drilled by hand. Said he: "It is almost like building a house." Good planes may not be susceptible to mass production, but until they are, aircraft makers are not capable of mass-production profits...