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Gray suggests no way by which the U. S. can carry this increased load of aid without having to cut into its own economy. This is the annoying detail which is perhaps best left out of an idealistic report. But it is the annoying detail the U. S. must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent...
...Load the family buggy down with all the loaded guns you can cram between the legs of the guys in the back seat. Be careful that all safeties...
What happens in a big U.S. city when all daily newspapers stop publishing? Last week Pittsburgh was finding out. When the Mailers' Union went on strike a fortnight ago-and the Drivers' Union refused to load papers - Pittsburgh's Scripps-Howard's Press, Hearst's Sun-Telegraph, William Block's Post-Gazette were forced to close...
...make sure that there would be enough steel for arms orders, last week decided that it had acted too hastily. It relaxed the order. NPA feared that the hazy DO system would overload some companies with arms orders, thus delay deliveries, and bring spotty civilian shortages. To spread the load more evenly, NPA announced that no company need accept DO priorities in any one month for more than 15% of its carbon steel capacity, or 25% of its special alloy steel...
...serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto one of our enemies.'" Instead George Allen took the RFC appointment...