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...year limit, or until June 30, 1943, on the period in which the President may contract for arms and equipment for Britain. This meant little, since the House almost to a man believed the war's final turn will occur before that date...
...where the A. F. of L. Carpenters union, controlled by hulking, button-eyed "Big Bill" Hutcheson, struck against the St. Louis brewers, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in an attempt to force the company to turn over to the carpenters the millwright work already being done under A. F. of L. contract by the Machinists union...
...When the stomach is empty, it begins to contract periodically. These hunger contractions are not started by sight, smell or taste of food, nor by schedules. In short, the stomach is an independent organ, uncontrolled by the brain or central nervous system...
...young republic, fearing a warlord of continental Europe, undertook its first full-fledged defense program. From the Federal Government in Philadelphia Whitney got a contract for 10,000 muskets. But New Haven whispered of the queer doings at the new arms factory: Whitney wasn't building muskets at all, he was building machines. When delivery was called for, Whitney could show only 500 muskets and a weird machine shop...
...gunstocks, ten barrels, ten triggers, etc., let President John Adams, General William North, Thomas Jefferson, other awed officials choose at random the parts from which a single excellent musket was quickly assembled. It was an unprecedented event in military and industrial history. The Government leniently extended Whitney's contract. His machine shop hummed...