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Chet Bowles was not only unmoved, but he forthwith tackled the biggest price problem of all. He bluntly gave automakers an invidious choice: sell their cars at the straight 1942-model prices or at the lower 1941 prices plus a percentage for added costs (which would not bring them much above the 1942 prices...
...fast. Last week there was ample evidence that the man who had become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make way for bigger pictures; many of the company's producers and starlets were paid off like extras...
Said Bush's group: the U.S. must adopt a "national policy for science" forthwith if it hopes to 1) keep abreast of other nations in military research, 2) "get ahead" in international trade, 3) achieve full employment. Bush's scientists unanimously agreed that this could be accomplished only by federal subsidy. Among those who concurred in his report were representatives of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Standard Oil of Indiana, Du Pont...
Retired from the Army in 1937 because of ill health, Chennault went forthwith to China, at Madame Chiang's request, plunged immediately into building up Chinese air power from a handful of outdated planes. His first big success came in 1941, when he formed the famed, spectacular American Volunteer Group ("Flying Tigers"), which shot down 297 Jap planes at a cost of 14 pilots...
...Forthwith, Symington must determine what is worth the attempt to sell. He can be reasonably sure that the $65 billion of tanks, planes, ammunition and other combat items will have little resale value. But there will still be $25 billion of salable items (merchant ships, plants, tractors, trucks, clothing...