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...Planned also was capacity to manufacture 20,000,000 rounds of .30-caliber (rifle and machine-gun) ammunition, 4,000,000 rounds of .50-caliber machine-gun ammunition every 24 hours. Now the goal is as much more as can be produced. Tough-talking Mr. Glancy is fond of somewhat fanciful translations of this vast economic effort into human effort: "These 3-in. (antiaircraft) guns shoot 25 rounds per minute, or 100 per battery. One round costs $22.37, or $134,220 per hour, or at $1 per hour the productive labor of 134,000 men. Mr. Ford, at Detroit...
While the Transcript is primarily respected for its impartiality, tradition has played a leading part in its appeal. Fond Bostonians like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
...doesn't measure up to Rupe on ideas, has somewhat more technique, and uses it to full advantage, without going to the extreme of playing in a disorganized style which is best illustrated by the unfortunately popular work of Art Tatum (By the way--Tatum isn't particularly fond of his commercialism. You should hear him when he's just playing for his own kicks...
Across the continent a cautious man smiled a cautious smile. Canada's Prime Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, is a middle-sized man with a care-furrowed brow, a neat round head neatly fringed with grey hair, and a fond expression. Cares and grey hairs come to him from troublesome Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and scholarly Premier Adelard Godbout of Quebec; his fondness is reserved for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Mr. King was happy: Messrs. Hepburn & Godbout were for the St. Lawrence Seaway project. Mr. King apprehensively asked whether the U. S. Government was really ready...
...implies that under his apparent ineffectualness there is something stronger than his daughter's brittle bravery. Like the Greek dramatists, Novelist Glasgow believes that men's characters are men's fate, and that tragedy is never in defeat but in surrender. "An honorable end," she is fond of saying, "is the one thing that cannot be taken from...