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...President explained that he wanted a framework drafted. He intended to set up the new division by executive order, would finance it with his blanket defense funds, hoped it would not cost much. The President then sent to the Senate a nomination of Coy as director of "a board of investigation and research" authorized by the 1940 Transportation Act. But Washington wiseacres expect the rising young New Dealer to spend his time on much more pressing things than researching "the relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service...
Herewith negative and copy of a photograph of a painting by a Bolivian artist recently on exhibition here in the Municipal Entrance Hall. The title on the framework underneath means "Flag Worship...
Greatest preparation of all was centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...about ready to settle down when he was offered a job by his brother's union. To fight open-shop contractors, the union was dynamiting structures built by non-union labor - not demolishing them, but twisting the whole framework by placing the explosives at the point of greatest stress, forcing the contractor to pull it down...
Labor. "The true status of man independent of economic progress must find expression in the managerial framework of industry; the rights of labor must be recognized as in principle equal to those of capital in the control of industry, whatever the means by which this transformation is effected...