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Illinois' 19th District chose an unopposed Republican, Attorney Rolla C. McMillen of Decatur, to fill a Congressional vacancy last week. As a result, for the first time since 1931, the Democrats now lack an actual majority in the House. The 435 seats are split almost 50-50: Democrats (216), Republicans (212), American-Laborite (1), Farmer-Laborite (1), Progressives (2), and three vacancies...
...letter began "My dear Clarence . . .", ended "Yours ever, Max." Between these affectionate lines Canadian-born Max Aitken, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broke the bad news to Canadian Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: Britain had ditched Canada's plan for postwar control of the air. Reason: the U.S. objected...
Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe totted up Canada's 1943 war production: 4,133 aircraft; 15,500 fighting vehicles; 45,000 gun barrels, mountings and carriages; 175,000 units of mechanical transport; 580,000 machine guns, rifles and other small arms; 30,000,000 rounds of artillery ammunition; 1,500,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition; 1,000,-000,000 lb. of chemicals and explosives; $180,000,000 worth of precision instruments and communications equipment; 150 merchant ships; 100 naval vessels. Total value: $3,435,000,000, an increase of $535,000,000 over 1942 war production...
Canada's plan for an international air policy was announced last week by an American-smart Wayne Parrish, editor of Washington's American Aviation Daily. Four days after Editor Parrish printed the details, U.S.-born Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe confirmed them...
North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line...