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...gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...
...MEMO TO MAX ANNENBERG...
Last week this question was analyzed carefully in a long memo from the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The memo recalls that World War I's first 16 months brought no price rise, that as late as December 1915 wholesale prices were only 6% above 1913, living costs only 5%. The early part of World War II presents a close parallel: when it started, the wholesale price level was 74.6% of the 1926 level, had been declining almost steadily ever since the end of the 1937 inflation...
...whole problem of war orders in 1940, most U. S. manufacturers reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...
...Sirs: In a recent issue [TIME, Sept. 2] you reported the attempt of Winston Churchill to cut down on the long-drawn-out and ultraformal expressions used in the English [civil] service. Quoted below is a memo which in effect says "No" to my sister's application to leave the British Isles...