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...second lend-lease appropriation (as he had voted against the original lend-lease proposal); a month before Pearl Harbor, he voted against arming U.S. merchant ships; on Dec. 6, 1941, he demanded to know why a force of 2,000,000 men was justified. In that force, actually multiplied sixfold, Taft's four sons were to serve throughout...
...first three months of 1952 they got exactly 10.5 ounces of meat. Fortunately, a considerable part of the huge expenditures of the past four years has gone into capital improvements. The area under irrigation has doubled, the soil planted to vegetables tripled, the number of tractors on farms increased sixfold, a merchant marine of 34 ships of 120,000 tons created from nothing. Factories like Philco refrigerator and Kaiser-Frazer have sprung...
...were added workers from Kentucky and Tennessee, dubbed "hillbillies" by their neighbors. Oldtime Detroiters blame them for some of the ugly race tension which erupted once and might again. Restive and dynamic, Detroit has all the problems of a city which, in a half-century, has increased sixfold...
With Carnegie Tech's football team in a long losing streak, Doherty refused to go into the market for better players, took the Skibos out of big-time football entirely ("Perhaps you came to the wrong school," he snapped at protesting students). He increased his research budget sixfold, extended it to bolster fields, where Carnegie had never excelled. He built a new petroleum laboratory, spent $1,800,000 for a nuclear research center...
...this same 58,000 was more than double the initial mark of 25,000, upped sixfold after the Army had discovered the usefulness of its women auxiliaries. And every woman jill of them was a volunteer, who had endured the cheap jokes and poor public reactions of the WAAC's early weeks. WAACs were sure that if enrollment had not proceeded according to plan the fault lay with the plan-and with U.S. women and kinsfolk...