Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With him went his military and naval aides. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, omnipresent Harry Hopkins. Overnight by train they went to Portsmouth. N. H. At the Navy's great base across the river at Kittery, Me. the President saw three new submarines on the ways, two more...
Most eminent spokesman for the anti-Chamberlain camp last week was Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister...
Last week the Defense Advisory Commission, whose price-hawk is Economist Leon Henderson, met 17 pulp & paper men (including Richard J. Cullen, president of vast International Paper & Power Co.) in Manhattan, got an agreement for no further rises. Both sides agreed on one important fact: total U. S. pulp-producing...
The White and Grace reports made clear that Defense had become a serious matter to Steel. They also indicated that further additions to capacity lay ahead. Bethlehem was already working at 99% of capacity (up from 82.6% in the second quarter), and new orders in July were 30 to 40...
No. 1 U. S. railroad, alphabetically speaking, is Aberdeen & Rockfish. It is 45 miles long, owns three locomotives and connects the North Carolina towns of Fayetteville and Aberdeen. Known far & wide is A. & R. for a rather dubious distinction. Every time ICC cooks up a legal action against all U...