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All this meant that automen had to keep a sharp lookout too. Their suppliers-processors of steel, lumber, textiles, etc.-are pretty well covered on their raw material needs into the first quarter of 1941. But if pressed too hard by a booming auto industry these suppliers might suddenly decide...
To forge an armaments industry from its steel mills, foundries, machine shops and technological resources, the U. S. started a business boom. Behind all the flag waving, the boom's most striking feature has been the way it has awakened the capital goods industries from their ten-year sleep...
The other cloud was darker. Many of Detroit's key supply industries are already overworked. Can they continue to fill Defense and consumer needs simultaneously? One narrowing bottleneck is pig iron (TIME, Sept. 23) which Detroit needs for its iron foundries. Another is the foundries themselves, which are being...
On the way to Omaha two extraordinary Republicans boarded the train. W. W. Waymack, brilliant prize-wanning editor of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and handsome Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers...
The growth of the U. S. has been one of the wonders of the Western world. Its population jumped from 2,945,000 in 1780 to some 30,000,000 just before the Civil War. Since 1880, the decennial rate of increase has declined. Predictions were that the country would...