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Point at issue was an anguished complaint from the Army and Navy that the building of synthetic rubber factories was eating up too many critical component parts also needed in the construction of Navy escort vessels and the manufacture of high-octane gas. They demanded a cut in the rubber program down to 55% of the 1943 goal. Said one War Department official: "If the . . . program is not held at a true 55%, we will be marvelously equipped to fight a war in the Mississippi Valley...
...only a Senator's vengeance but an $8,000-a-year salary (plus two cars and a chauffeur), one of the Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement over Jurney...
Important changes are taking place in the kinds of munitions ordered. There will be fewer tanks, ack-ack guns, ammunition; more planes, merchant ships and naval escort vessels. For example, the original 1943 tank program (75,000) has been cut about half, while the hope is to double aircraft and shipbuilding output. This shift in military strategy has caused a great many dislocations, some of them now surmounted. For instance...
According to the Fort Devens Digest, PFC Jack A. Stone '42, of the 324th MP Escort Guard Company of Fort Devens, has gained military as well as political honors, for he received a special commendation for work he did at the scene of a train wreck...
...announcing this good news last week Mr. Jeffers also made clear that it was nothing to brag about. The synthetic-rubber program, he admitted, is about 30 days behind schedule because both aviation gasoline and naval escort vessel production have stood ahead of it in the lineup for vital instruments, rectifiers, forgings, etc. And the U.S. cannot afford the loss of those 30 days with its military rubber supplies dwindling...