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...refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right-of-way. Hard-boiled Harold Ickes, once he had the money, didn't wait "for legal unravelings: he condemned a right-of-way, promised to argue about damage claims later. To avoid a speculator's field holiday, he signed an order suspending...
...Moscow conferences, Molotov will make no move without Stalin's consent. But Stalin's mind, to a degree unsuspected abroad, will reflect Viacheslav Molotov's advice...
...duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...
...military units which either take orders directly from an international boss, or else take such orders in directly, through their own national governments acting as agents of the international boss. (Much the same thing, since no national army or navy would ever march off or sail off without the consent of its national government.) This was the League of Nations model which failed, although not because of its mechanical setup. This is the model, if any, which the world is likely to see again after the present war. Mechanically, it varies little from an old-fashioned multipartite military alliance...
...state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state...