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...Lockheed, Boeing, Douglas will also expand their capacity. Getting machine tools, materials, labor for this belated bomber program is bound to be difficult. At best, the expected rate of bomber production (500 a month) can hardly be attained before mid-1942. But the need for quantity production of high-load, long-range bombers had at last been recognized, and something was being done to get the planes...
...giant, 17-State power pool which represented the largest U.S. attempt to date to coordinate power facilities. From Illinois to Texas and from Florida to Pennsylvania, every generating station owned by TVA and 17 private companies will be thrown into maximum possible use, with interconnected transmission lines balancing the load...
...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...
...Federal funds in return for University facilities and men being used by Washington and a reduction of salaries for Faculty members who because of work in defense cannot carry a full teaching load...
...large contracts were let to 80 companies. Three companies (Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors) willingly or unwillingly took 23% of the contracts, while most of the 184,244 U.S. manufacturing companies got none. Last February OPM set up the Defense Contract Service division to spread the defense load by encouraging the big firms to subcontract. For its head, OPM picked hard-hitting Robert Lee Mehornay, a onetime Army captain...