Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt boarded his train, it became clear that he had not made a complete turnabout on aid to other democracies. A terse White House announcement-coming on the heels of Japan's peace treaty with her puppet Nanking regime-made known that the U. S. had arranged to make $100,000,000 available to China. Half of this would come from the Treasury's stabilization fund to support Chinese currency ; half would be put up by the Export-Import Bank, against Chinese shipments of wolframite (tungsten ore), antimony, tin, for the U. S. strategic materials stockpile...
...Effusive Joseph E. Davies, chairman of inaugural ceremonies for Term III, appointed Columnist Dorothy Thompson head of a special committee to "make the voice of the country articulate in these ceremonies." Other plans: fewer parading troops, "extreme democratic simplicity...
Lockheed Hudson bombers cost $90,000, take 24,000 man-hours apiece to build. From its 20,000 employes (average pay: 75? an hour) Lockheed-Vega solicited voluntary pledges of two or more hours of pay per man, planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50% of the cost, despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that...
...this is the opening match for both teams, it is hard to make any prediction but it is known that the Engineers have an unusually strong squad this year, and will surely do better than their 33-3 defeat of last season. 175-pound John Carloton, only Techman to win his bout last year, will be the chief threat this afternoon...
...thirty-two bar choruses full of technique and nothing else. I realize that it has a terrific commercial appeal: witness what Krupa's pyrotechnics did for the Goodman band three years ago. But at the same time, Krupa had something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks out of a good technician like Ray McKinley when he takes off for twenty minutes while Will Bradley...