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...into the fastest, longest-ranged, high-altitude bomber the air arm has ever owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...
...enterprises are favored. There is no doubt that the Church also admits nationalization within justified limits ... But to make this nationalization the normal rule of public economy would be to reverse the order of things. It is public authority's function to serve private rights, not to absorb them...
...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...
...this time Louis Johnson had also thrust his bald skull into another angry beehive. At a friendly little luncheon for a handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
Rivera promptly forgot the connection. Being a sharp student, with a blotterlike ability to absorb and reproduce the methods of a succession of his masters, he won a traveling scholarship at 20, spent the next three years "gobbling up museums," painting in Europe, and expressing little that he felt...