Word: programs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vehicles (tanks, trucks, motorcycles, motorized artillery, etc.), 26,000 men. The First Division was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., the Second Division at Fort Benning, Ga. Next year, if all goes better with the armored force than with the rest of the defense program, two more divisions will be organized. At least two, perhaps six more will follow. Even then the U. S. armored force will be a puny rival of Germany's land fleets, which now have twelve full divisions, 55,000 tanks-and no Mae Wests...
...great simplicity - the royal Princesses have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler...
...shifts and a 24-hour day. Since July, some 600 schools throughout the land had enrolled 215,000 mechanics, had already sent 115,000 of them to work in defense factories. Boomed big, bulb-nosed Dr. John Calvin Wright, Assistant U. S. Commissioner of Vocational Education: "The vocational training program is right on schedule...
...this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find...
Added to tax-loss selling last week was a new December phenomenon: sales to take profits on stocks which had moved up. Since any change in income taxes would be upward (to pay for the defense program), investors with large paper profits hastened to cash them in at the 1940 rate...