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...recommendations for settling the Puget Sound C.I.O. loggers' strike. Similar contract terms had already been accepted by nonstriking C.I.O. loggers in the Columbia River district. But the answer of O. M. ("Mickey") Orton, strike leader, was a violent denunciation of Board Chairman Clarence Dykstra and his terms as an "all-out, labor-busting and strikebreaking device." Philip Murray, in a cold rage, called Orton's statement "a most reprehensible lying defamation...
...Army Air Corps had not yet gone all-out for big bombers when Bob Lovett gave up his partnership in a Manhattan banking house (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), became Assistant Secretary of War for Air last April. He forthwith went all-out, yammered for more and heavier bombers until he got action. Now the U.S. is striving to get capacity to build 500 such bombers a month...
There was the possibility that the Germans were preparing for renewed, intensified attacks on shipping facilities, or mass daylight raids at such high altitudes that British fighters would not be much use. Or the next German effort might be an all-out campaign against the R.A.F. and all its bases-an attempt to achieve that superiority in the air without which invasion remains just a dream...
...what the purchasing agents thought and felt depended to a large extent whether the U.S. would have inflation or avoid it. If they decided that inflation was coming, and began an all-out spending spree, only drastic Government inventory control could keep...
Said Professor Douglas: "[The bulletins were] much more critical of many Administration policies than I wanted them to be." Said Professor Lindeman: "I am all-out for intervention. . . . [The Institute] did not seem...