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...danger today is that patriotic fervor seeking a release in action may lead us to pay a disastrously and unnecessarily high price. Today we are asked to aid England with supplies, and that is right. Tomorrow the German attack may shift to the outposts of Britain's Empire, and many will feel that the time has come to send men and ships. But it is there that we must steel ourselves to say no. If lives are to be lost in defense of our nation, we must not meet the enemy on his own terms and send...
...Navy Departments' industrial mobilization charts) was voluntary cooperation. Nevertheless a hard vein ran through the Commission's silky words ("There should be ... honest and sincere desire to cooperate ... in producing what is called for, and on time, without profiteering; to assume some risks . . . rather than attempting to shift all such risks to the Government . . ."). Formulator of these standards was not Mr. Roosevelt, but business-minded Donald Marr Nelson, on leave from Sears, Roebuck & Co. to serve the President and the Defense Commission...
...Exception: Connecticut.) But a shift of a few per cent in a majority of them would still change the picture...
...such place-names as Essen, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, "the goods yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
Biggest electric-furnace operator in the industry* is Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. Last week its operating chief, Vice President Charles M. White, announced that Republic was going to maintain this lead. With one 50-ton-per-shift, two 25-ton, three 15-ton, two 6-ton electric furnaces all going full blast, White announced that his Canton works would soon add two mammoth new electric furnaces with a combined capacity of 100 tons per shift, roughly a 50% increase in Republic's capacity...