Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...only 10% of our total output of goods and that consequently there is no need to get hot and bothered about that 10%. It is just like saying that the net profit of a firm is only 6% of the gross business done and that there is no use to worry about that. Year in and year out we manage to show a favorable trade balance with the countries with which we do business. That 10% just about represents what...
...confidant. Somewhere within the lean and hungry Hopkins frame, the burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...
...Stimson, to work over him as a Presidential assistant ("my eyes and ears . . . reporting to me on the continuing progress of the entire national defense program"). Offhand, it did not look as if there were a spot where aggressive Mr. Johnson's talents would be of less use, or where his equal talent for getting in other people's hair would wreak greater havoc with the Defense program...
...Question: "Instead of waiting for the airplane builders to expand their facilities, why ries?" don't you Knudsen: use "We the would gain automobile facto nothing but floor space. [Automobiles have] wholly different engines, of different size, of different tooling. The buildings alone would be of use...
This week William Knudsen had U. S. aircraft manufacturers in Washington to find a way out of a very big bottle with a very tight neck. Defense orders mean that many manufacturers must put up new plants, put in new tools which may be of no use when Defense demands end. Manufacturers therefore want to net enough from the Defense orders to pay for the new facilities, definitely do not want to risk paying ruinous taxes on worthless property (as many had to do after World War I). Said the U. S. Chamber of Commerce last week: ". . . Probabilities of ultimate...