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Last week the squabbling got organized, by formation under WMC of an inter-agency Committee on Manpower Claimants. First job of the CMC was to decide which industries rate deferments. By week's end CMC had settled on five: aircraft, landing craft, rubber, rockets, radar. Competition was still fierce, since it is planned to defer a maximum of only 75,000 men. Once the industries are agreed on, the next job will be to list the most critical plants within each industry. Final selection of workers to be deferred will be left to plant bosses, local and State draft...
American Story was MacLeish's idea, and NBC's Inter-American University of the Air adopted it. A frankly educational venture, it is composed chiefly of quotations from the explorers and those who wrote about them in their time. This source material is the core of MacLeish's purpose. He wanted the average, unscholarly American to hear the original accounts of the men who were there, or close...
...Detroit's 243-year history, probably no more exotic a luncheon had been served. The 275 guests at the Inter-American Air Cargo luncheon ate food that had been flown thousands of miles...
Rockefeller Helps. Siqueiros claims that his tour has been a thumping success, stresses the fact that the greatest help came from Nelson Rockefeller's coordinators of inter-American affairs. Only the Mexican press attacked Siqueiros as a gangster and a fugitive from justice. Says the muralist resignedly: "No one is a prophet in his own land...
...greatest living war commentator was speaking to the House of Commons, but his audience was the world. In the broad view, Winston Churchill's report was pregnant with political implications. But in the area of combat (as in the field of specific inter-Allied power politics) Churchill's summary, his first in five months of intensified military operations and preparations, was also the clear and vivid report of a great commander...