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This week Wendell Willkie died. The news came as an actual shock; if there had been a seismograph to measure such things, it would have recorded that the shock was felt by human beings clear around the world. All over the U.S. the people said the same things to each other: simple words of half-angry disbelief, of loss, of sorrow. That was a man, said the people...
High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...
Pennsylvania's level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...
...drawback is that the plan comes late. Even optimistic General Browning fears that it may prove a better cushion for industry against the shock of the end of the Japanese rather than the German...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...