Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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WORLD'S END-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...literary, the novels of Upton Sinclair (The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, Boston, etc.) are not literature. To historians, they are not history. To propagandists, they are not propaganda. But to millions of plain people, they are all three of those things. Of living U. S. writers he has been far & away the most widely trans ated - into at least 47 languages in 39 countries. In Middle Europe, in Russia, in China, in India his name (sometimes confused with Sinclair Lewis) is known to people who never heard of Ernest Heming way, never will hear of Branch Cabell. This...
...note to the reader, "that I, as a novelist, have for years been running away from them." The better to see them, perhaps; for the setting of World's End is not contemporary : it is a novel about Europe and America between 1913 and 1919. Upton Sinclair lived in Europe before World War I; he knew some of the peace conferees of 1919 and some of the journalists, particularly Lincoln Steffens, who watched their struggles. Through his new novel readers may recover much of the atmosphere, some of the meaning of those days...
...whole series of politician Air Secretaries have bumbled and bungled without getting hurry up aircraft production on half the necessary scale. Churchill set up a new Ministry of Aircraft Production (separate from the Air Ministry headed by an old Etonian, Sir Archibald Sinclair...
...late hour for Britain to ask miracles of aircraft production. But Lord Beaverbrook, a friend of Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair and a buddy of U. S. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, wasted no time lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments...