Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Whether these four men could work smoothly together, unanimous on all important points, remained to be seen. On one point they were in complete agreement. Day after their appointment they called upon the U. S. public "to recognize the full gravity of the crisis . . . pull off their coats and roll up their sleeves. . . . The contest which produced this crisis is irreconcilable in character and cannot be terminated by any methods of appeasement." With Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" becoming more actual every day, the Big Four's teamwork would be visible very soon...
...heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini's "pond." At no point did the British encounter any Italian resistance...
...best represented by three giants: Du Pont, Chrysler, General Motors. Once a munitions-maker, Du Pont had diversified its business to the point where powder was less than 2% of its sales. Chrysler and G. M., too, wanted no part of the war as an investment. Each of these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost...
...their forecast of the year's demand by letting the price of ore crack (the cracker: Henry Ford) for the first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
...went to Germantown Academy. The discovery, in his teens, that he was totally color-blind dashed his ambitions to go to West Point. For a time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...