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...sound, however, was effectively muffled for some time in the corridors of military bureaucracy; and the man who had so inconsiderately upset the steel-plated applecart of 19th century warfare, Brigadier General William Mitchell of the Army Air Service, soon found himself a chairborne colonel in Texas. The brass, as one recalcitrant officer put it, had decided "to ignore the airplane ... in the hope that if nobody mentioned it, it would go away...
Referring to the U.A.W.'s threat to strike, if necessary, to get some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation...
...disappointment at Konrad Adenauer's door, before the Bevanite "No Guns for Huns" campaign seduced Britain's Labor Party into opposition to any German rearmament, before the U.S. got too involved in its fall election campaign, before France's Mendès-France could upset the applecart with another of his drastic alternatives...
Last week, in winning his greatest battle, Apple Seller Cardiff upset the Food & Drug Administration's entire applecart. In a case that Cardiff has been fighting for nearly three years, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal inspectors have no right to inspect a food plant without the owner's permission. In effect, the decision, based on "vague" language in the law, wiped away most of the evidence-gathering power of the Food & Drug Administration...
...European recovery could be accomplished for less than $17 billion over a four-year period. The last request brought the total up to about $14½ billion-$2½ billion less than the original estimate, with success in sight. The President thought it a pity to overturn the whole applecart in the interests of misplaced economy. It was not economy and it would never be economy if the European recovery program was ruined just when the whole program was on the verge of success...