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After a few warm-up parries, one of them made a serious thrust by bringing up the fact that Harry Truman's candidate in the Missouri Democratic Senate primary-Emery Allison-had lost. Would the President support the Democrat who won, anyway...
...penthouse political conference in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel last December, Harry Truman decided, and shortly proclaimed for all to hear, that Emery Allison would make a wonderful U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri...
...common reaction among many Missouri Democrats was to ask: Who is Emery Allison? He turned out to be an Ozark country lawyer, a Baptist, Mason and Legionnaire, and the plodding, cigar-smoking, 56-year-old president pro tem of the Missouri state senate. He was also the great & good friend of Jim Pendergast, who, like his father before him, is the great & good friend of Harry Truman...
...transports for the Air Force and its Navy F-3-D fighters and AD attack bombers; Lockheed (backlog: $225 million) for its jet-powered F94 Air Force Penetration fighters; Grumman (backlog: $144 million) for its F-9-F Navy jet fighters. Pratt & Whitney, Curtiss-Wright and General Motors' Allison Division were all souping up engine assemblies...
...meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from Continental Motors and for transmissions from G.M.'s Allison, sought heavy armor from several steel castings firms...