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This change may help solve one of Willow Run's fundamental troubles: manpower, which is linked to the lack of housing. And the housing lack is Ford's fault-he refused to permit erection of housing near the plant. Most workers must still drive the 26 miles out from Detroit. And at present the payroll at Willow Run numbers 40,066 (38% are women...
Still another fault to be found (they keep cropping up), which led the Professor Holmes' statement that "These startling things aren't so startling" was the opening question, "Name the thirteen original states." Newspaper headlines may make the fact that only six per cent of the freshmen polled could do this but while very few people can name all 13, a fair question which called for 11 or even 12 might have produced a more favorable result to the students, although not to the Times' campaign to have American history made a compulsory study...
...head of this organization Davis' main concern-and job-is to connect OWI with the White House, and with the people. Actually he does nothing much in particular, either way, and this is not necessarily his fault. For, speaking largely, no one has conclusively proved that OWI has fulfilled any of the purposes for which...
...himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility to the audience. I would not go out to a nightclub the evening before I sing. If I did, and my performance was poor, it would be my fault...
Technically these men run institutions that are conservative to a fault. Against 4,000-odd bank failures in 1933, there were only nine last year. Bank deposits (up to $5,000) are insured by FDIC. Though excess reserves are down, member banks carry $13 billions with the Federal; and behind the Federal is the Treasury's $22 billions in gold...