Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tired of being the whipping boy of a lagging national defense program, last week labor rose to protest. Cried President William Green, the A. F. of L. stood "four square in support of the national defense program. We commit ourselves to avoid strikes. . . . We are ready to make any reasonable and necessary sacrifices...
...series of executive orders soon to be issued, said the President, the Big Four will get all the powers he can constitutionally give it, including power to make all decisions on national defense without reference to the President. He would interfere, he said, only when the Big Four's decisions were not in the best interests of the country. And he expected the Council's decisions to be unanimous. If they ever disagreed, the President would have to step in and settle the matter himself...
Aircraft and automobile manufacturers alike were sure to echo William Knudsen, say that automobile factories and machines could not be adapted to manufacture aircraft. But Mr. Reuther pointed out that two automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters...
...Climax ad did better than the county's. Only offer soft-voiced County Treasurer Frank Kendrick received when he opened his auction came by mail from George B. Malott, president of an Indianapolis machine works. The bid: $10. promptly rejected. Malott, who makes a hobby of bidding at tax sales ("to help out local units of government, and, naturally, to make, a little change for myself"), had not known that Colorado law demanded a bid equal at least to the amount of delinquent taxes...
Knollenberg experienced no unusual difficulties until 1775. In that year Washington took the revolutionary limelight, began to write letters and make comments on which classic U. S. historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...