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...aboard became only casually familiar with her intricate machinery. Only three or four of her fire extinguishers were examined. Expert estimate: probably only about 50% were in good condition; faulty equipment was not replaced. Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corp., which had the contract to convert her into a naval auxiliary vessel, took inadequate precautions against fire. Authority was undefined. Although the committee found no evidence of sabotage, opportunities for it were "abundant." Background to Chaos was laid when Washington ordered the Normandie made ready to sail for Boston on Feb. 14. Workers protested that...
Interiors, simply decorated with matted floors and modern furniture, recalled-similar interiors in Japanese houses. Like Japanese interiors, some were fitted with sliding panels and partitions which could convert big rooms into little ones...
...Beaver jumped or fell from the Churchill Cabinet. The brash baron who was born plain Max Aitken of Canada explained vociferously: "I am simply a sick man needing a rest." He has had bouts of asthma and temperament, inextricably mixed, for years. Between bouts (and during them) he helped convert British industry to wartime production, whooped up aircraft building, slashed British red tape, shocked and angered many an Old School Tie; he stepped up beside Churchill, as Minister of Production, did a whale of a job in upping British war production...
...Jesus Christ." He had no trouble becoming a preacher, but he didn't know anything. So he worked his way through school (meanwhile marrying and begetting two sons) and graduated, age 29; with highest honors. His wife graduated in the same class. Then Old McDonald set out to convert Oklahoma because "Oklahoma was bound for hell as straight and as fast as an Indian could shoot an arrow." The McDonalds settled in Sallisaw, on the edge of the outlaw and moonshine belt. There, when one "man killed another no one bothered him because the community considered the killing...
...Treasury also left the present normal corporate income tax unchanged at 24%. Instead, it would convert the present 6% and 7% surtax into a "war surtax" of maybe 31%, aimed at the most profitable corporations. One reason for not raising the normal rate: some outstanding Federal bonds are tax-exempt as to normal tax, not as to surtax. If the normal tax were increased, these bonds might become unduly attractive in comparison with new (wholly taxable) issues to come...