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Only real universities in the U.S. then were tiny Johns Hopkins and Clark; Harvard was still a college without university research. The University of Chicago sprang fullgrown from Harper's head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent...
But it took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt...
The Navy gets no draftees, requires its regular volunteers to sign up for six-year hitches (longest Army tour for volunteers: four and one-half years). Despite this stiff requirement, the Navy is already doing very well, recruiting at the rate of 10,300 per month. To run this up...
In six dizzy weeks of needling, wheedling, probing, recommending and arguing, the 50-year-old trouble shooter had succeeded handsomely in administering to Free China's sole remaining commercial traffic vein a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Tonnage of U.S. and British war materials hauled through Burma to Generalissimo...
To stop the flooding tide of public, parliamentary and press criticism of the efficiency of the Government's production machinery. Winston Churchill last week cast himself in the role of Canute. In less than an hour and a half he raced through an 80-page speech want the Government to...