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...make the war material. This was the OPM phase. In the next stage (SPAB and WPB) the great new plants quickly ran the stockpiles down into shortages, and new plants and machinery had to be built to meet these shortages. This terrific expansion, in turn (in conjunction with the draft), used up all the U.S. manpower...
...Draft. In Chicago, Dishwasher John Atkinson, picked up for being without a draft card, told the judge that he used to be a trapper, had once caught a skunk in one of his traps, had to burn his draft card as well as his clothes. In Detroit, Perry James Carter explained to the judge that he had ignored his induction notice because he felt it no longer concerned him, since he was "a different man" after receiving...
Tough Weeks. He wrote Winged Victory in less than a month, had 17 days, as his own director, to put the show on. For the cast, 7,000 applicants were once-overed, classified 1-A, 1-B, 4-F as in the draft, pared down to 350. Every rehearsal was "like an invasion"-350 performers, 70 stagehands, five revolving stages, 17 scenes. Haggard and jittery, Hart managed "to stay calm till I got to my bedroom at night, when I went crazy." Though he had waived every cent of royalties (in various forms Winged Victory may gross...
Even as the President spoke, 21 members of Brazil's State Administrative Council were working quietly and without publicity around a large oval table in the Ministry of Labor. Their job: to draft a new and liberalized Constitution...
Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who pores over and polishes one draft after another, Churchill, often chisels the splendid phrase as he speaks. In preparation, Churchill dictates ideas directly to a typist (who uses a machine with very large type). These notes frame what he intends to say, but they are no more than a frame. Once on his feet he improvises, digresses, shapes his points as he rolls along...