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...Divided authority: SPAB cannot let contracts-that is an Army & Navy function. SPAB cannot finance projects -that is a Jesse Jones monopoly. SPAB cannot enforce its Latin American rulings-such policies are set by the Board of Economic Warfare and interfered with by the State Department. SPAB cannot touch production-that belongs to Knudsen in OPM. SPAB cannot handle conversion-that is the function of Floyd Odium's subcontracting division, and Odium cannot do anything either, because the Army & Navy let all contracts. Yet SPAB is supposedly the top defense board...
...most disappointing part about this film is that it looked as if it might mildly promising in a Sunday afternoon sort of a way. Mickey Rooney has his admires. He has, in the past, fulfilled a certain valuable function in glorifying the American family as Andy Hardy. My mother wouldn't throw his autograph into the waste basket, if he sent it to her. And Judy Garland has a very nice voice. We are merely trying to prove that it wasn't entirely our fault for going to the movie in the first place...
...change their editorial attitude they would be barred from all official news sources-a penalty which would virtually put any Washington newspaperman out of business. On the surface the action looked like an attempt to suppress criticism of the conduct of the war-something far beyond the legitimate function of a military censorship...
...best it is the agency whereby a nation's minds are able to communicate with its people. Little, Brown's conservatism does not mean editorial stuffiness, but a high sense of a permanent intellectual function. Says the firm's centennial booklet, with no trace of self-consciousness: "Democracy will survive in America and with it Little, Brown...
Taking their ethics from their customers (jalopy dealers care chiefly for looks and price) some retreaders had used inferior rubber, put it on with substandard equipment. Yet they always had an important economic function, too. Fleet owners, taxi and trucking companies know that retreads cost only half as much as new tires (they use only 40% as much rubber) and give 75-80% as much wear. Moreover, a good tire may be renewed more than once. Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them...