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...words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...major tactical effect will become apparent only when at least three of the new battle wagons are in service. The 15 battleships now in commission are slow (18-21 knots), depend mainly on heavy armor and crushing fire power. Rated at 27 knots, the North Carolina can probably do 30. Three such speed wagons will give the Fleet a new battleship division, able to operate as a unit with a fair chance to outmaneuver the fastest battleships which an enemy is likely to have. The Navy's present battleships require destroyers, cruisers and aircraft to do the fast...
Besides overcrowding, the chief reason for these gruesome facts is that Health Officer Ruhland has to depend on Congress' meagre doles: 97? per resident for public health, instead of at least $2.50. There are only two municipal hospitals, only 150 city nurses (needed...
Today the Maritime Commission has another, war-born job. It has to build another bridge of ships to carry arms and food from the arsenal of democracy to the battle fronts. The scope of that task no man can foresee. Its length and breadth depend upon how much battering the British can still take, how much shipping the Germans can sink, how fast U. S. shipyards can turn out bottoms to re place them. All the Commission is concerned with is to turn out ships, ships and more ships, and turn them out fast. The U. S. Navy...
...board was instructed to: 1) try to negotiate agreements; 2) "afford means for voluntary arbitration"; 3) make public "findings of fact." The only lash the board had with which to drive stubborn parties into a settlement was publicity. Its best chance of making a good record seemed to depend on the calibre of its members. Most observers applauded Mr. Roosevelt's selections...