Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week John Lewis made another speech. In it he did not pretend to be the humble servant of labor expressing its will. Instead he undertook the risks and responsibilities of leading and of asking labor to follow. Said he frankly: "I choose to speak tonight only in the role of a citizen and an American. ... I do not speak for labor, but on the contrary I speak to labor and to all my countrymen...
Since the late great Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell demanded a separate air force and got a court-martial instead, flying officers who agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
Died. John N. Ridgely, 107, Civil War veteran; in Portland, Ore. Last year he objected that his 78-year-old son was too old to be appointed guardian of his $77,000 estate, got his great-granddaughter appointed personal guardian instead, and a bank to manage his affairs...
...single utility issue since 1937, "Economy Harry's" 35 were a tough assignment for underwriters. No sooner had they taken it than it got tougher: the "Big Five" insurance companies (Metropolitan, Prudential, New York Life, Equitable, Mutual Life), who had wanted a 3% yield, boycotted the issue. Hence, instead of selling one-third or half the issue with five phone calls, underwriters had to sell to hundreds of small insurance companies, thousands of banks and private investors...