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Spurring Mr. Roosevelt's attack on industry's weekend and night-shift blackout were many a fact & figure on equipment which could produce far more. Examples from machine-tool plant reports which are in the hands of Washington defensemen...
...Only 20 of the 67 included in the report were operating three shifts; 43 were on two shifts; four were still on a single shift...
Latest unofficial reports from England seem to indicate a shift in opinion. It now appears that a declaration of war by this country would be distinctly desirable from the English point of view for two reasons. One is the obvious psychological effect which such a declaration would have upon the Axis and also upon Turkey and the Balkans. The second is a conviction apparently prevalent that unless this country is put upon a complete war basis very soon, labor disputes and tie-ups are going to have a disastrous effect upon the projected aid so desperately needed by Britain...
...only is the vast majority shown which favors our entrance if necessary to defeat the Axis, but there has been a large shift on the convoy question. From the Crimson's figure of 27 per cent quoted last Monday, it had changed by the middle of the week poll until "41 per cent said they now favored the use of United States naval convoys." (Times). Over a 50 per cent increase in so short a time is highly indicative that the United States is rapidly coming to believe that the time when it must enter the war to make sure...
...Saints wore star-spangled, red-white-&-blue uniforms (which made Showman Slip Madigan's St. Mary's-of-California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...