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...poor in Italy have rations equivalent to the diet enjoyed in 1937 at the peak of Mussolini's prosperity era. . . . [Italy] is a veritable land of plenty, while in all three countries black-market restaurants supplied steaks, eggs, fruits and other delicacies at prices equivalent to those of restaurants in New York...
During the war, California Shipbuilding Corp. built 467 ships worth some $1,000,000,000. But shortly after V-J day, Calship's payroll dropped to 800 from its wartime peak of 42,500; its 14 ways were sold for lumber. Calship President John A. McCone and Board Chairman Stephen Bechtel found themselves heading a company reportedly worth $14,000,000, most of it in cash. With nothing to make, they wanted to find a use for their cash...
...Navy contract changed their minds. Before the war was over, Hendy had: 1) produced $225,000,000 worth of equipment (including engines for one-third of the Liberty ship fleet); 2) expanded to a 55-acre plant employing at its war peak 7,500 workers. Hendy's most spectacular achievement: when the Navy needed 252 rocket launchers in a hurry for the invasion of Kwajalein, Hendy produced them in 176 hours...
...production of military explosives employed only 400 workers, accounted for less than 2% of Du Font's total sales. During the war, Du Pont built up its munitions capacity to a peak employment of 37,000, produced 4.5 billion pounds of explosives (20% more than the Allies used in World War I). But even in wartime, military explosives accounted for only 25% of Du Font's total production v. 85% in World War I. The rest comprised neoprene, nylon...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...