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...Admiral Leahy gets the power that his title implies, he will have a tremendous job: he will frame strategic plans with the President, direct their execution, tie the military war effort of the U.S. into a coordinated whole, gear it with the grand plans of the United Nations. He will also have to put Army & Navy in their proper psychological relations to each other...
...lack of steel the famed Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit may grind to a stop within a few weeks. Elsewhere in the Detroit area the Chevrolet gear and axle plant, the Fisher Body plant No. 1 are already shut down...
...public heard that the Japanese Zero was a superior plane, then read that the antiquated Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk) knocked the whey out of it. Reports said the Bell P39 (Airacobra) had too fragile a landing gear for the rough fields of Russia; other reports from the Red Front had Airacobras fighting German planes to a standstill. The later P-40s (Kittyhawks) supposedly couldn't get high enough to fight Messerschmitts, but in Libya the Kittyhawk, with Spitfires, took control of the air and held...
...Navy equipment that in reading an appropriations bill he may spot not merely additions to the Fleet, but small changes in ships in service. From a sheet of figures, where an ordinary layman detects only digits, he comes up with funnels, torpedo tubes, extra speed, six new submarines, degaussing gear, winches. But this strange genius takes no notes. His filing system is all between the ears...
...Business School, which had already set up a Quartermaster unit, a Naval Supply Corps, and an Industrial Administration course, established a special program for the Army Air Force late in the spring, and doubled its other enrollments. The A. R. P. program shifted into high gear, the graduate schools speeded up admission, mid-year graduation prerequisites were relaxed, A. R. P. questionnaires were distributed, and War Certificates were made available to students leaving without a degree, as Harvard drastically transformed itself into a war machine...