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...National Defense Mediation Board this week threw up its hands and for the first time admitted defeat. It had shattered its shining lance on a pile of coal. For nearly a month, while operators and miners wrangled, virtually no soft coal had been mined. Emergency supplies had dwindled by the hour, while steelmakers, munition makers, shipbuilders cursed. "Criminal" was the word OPM's angry William Knudsen used two weeks ago to describe any stoppage in the defense program. Shocking, at least, were the figures which showed what had happened as the result of the stoppage in coal...
Later, the Senator expressed the belief that, if we enter the war, we will pile up a debt of 200 billion dollars. "As a result, there will be a drastic inflation after...
...believe that the various shires in England have an income tax to pile on top of the Government...
This week the House Military Affairs Committee settled down to an investigation of the whole defense effort, promised to look hard for the Communist in the defense-pile. From the President came a warning: reports of Communist activities should not be used to smear labor. But the nation, growing anxious about its defense plants, was more concerned about agents of foreign powers smearing...
...light tank again, Colonel Williams and his six-man civilian crew fired only their machine guns. Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks of the smaller tank...