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...week's end the America First Committee was working overtime to prevent transfer of more destroyers and bombers to Britain, was girding its loins for the next session of Congress, to fight repeal of the Johnson Act (no loans to defaulters on World War I loans) and the Neutrality Act (cash & carry aid only...
...shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part of the country, even more than...
...planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50% of the cost, despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that the Ambassador use this money toward the purchase of a Lockheed Hudson for the people of England...
...Against this the Admiralty's shipbuilding program aimed at only 1,250,000 tons in the first war year, and even this figure was not reached. Lord Beaverbrook had upped aircraft production at shipbuilding's expense, said Shinwell; the Government had not used its emergency powers to transfer labor to the most useful work; emergencies were being met by appeals, not compulsion; "we can't run the war by a succession of Flag Days...
...transfer to the University of Dumbarton Oaks, one of the most famous old homes in Gerogetown, D. C., and the "Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections" was announced yesterday...