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...World War I, said early this month during a tour of air combat training centers that the U.S. was superior both in aircraft production and design. Secretary Stimson refrained from commenting on "the reported inferiority of our planes because I have been waiting for a well-founded complaint." Two Army majors sagely told the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York that while "it may be admitted that for altitude work we have not yet been able to match the best fighters of Britain, Germany and Japan," the P-40 and P39 were doing a creditable job "in the lower...
Most frequent criticism of the Council and its program is the complaint that America should devote all of its attention to winning the war. The Council's answer is contained in a flyer distributed throughout the college in the last few days...
Returning from India, U.S. Industrialist Henry Francis Grady revealed last week that U.S. experts had thoroughly canvassed India's possibilities as a strategic military bastion and a source of materiel. Wherever he went Grady heard the old complaint that war production was hampered by Britain's protection of her own interests and by the apathy of labor and industry. The full Grady report was not released, but its recommendation that U.S. engineers and technicians be sent to speed up Indian war production was evidence of the U.S. stake in India and the need for internal stability...
...battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...
...break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers; small individual checks are bolstered by a door charge. At the uppity Club Royale executives are coming back after months when they were too busy on war work to gallivant. Burlesque strippers disrobe before ever-growing audiences. Only complaint of the operators: kitchen help and waiters are hard to find, and harder to keep...