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Under such a plan Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and Lend-Lease' would attach to their contracts warrants for specific quantities of scarce materials each month and the sum total of all the warrants cannot total more than the scarce materials the Production Requirements Committee allocates to each service. Each month these warrants would be returned to WPB and, if they added up to more steel, copper, etc. than the Requirements Committee had allocated, WPB would order the guilty services to cut their production schedules. WPB will thus be a central score keeper without trying to be the central scheduler...
...first U.S. press attaché for Eire, former New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., who will also represent OWI in Dublin. Unique among drama critics, Watts spent his summers investigating China, Russia, other hot spots, filing dispatches to his paper...
...purchasing war stamps or bonds, realizing that such action would be aiding the war effort. He has even been courageous enough to write his beliefs in the form of a petition, which he posted on his House bulletin board. His name is unknown, since through thoughtfulness, he neglected to attach his signature to the petition, which ran as follows...
Last fortnight, using all his legislative skill, Senator McKellar tried to attach a dog collar for TVA to an appropriation bill: he wanted to abolish TVA's revolving fund and thus make it run to Congress -and McKellar-for every penny of its building funds. Debate in the Senate was hot and mean; McKellar got so enraged that he scrambled his facts, to the point of losing geographical track of the Tennessee River. Gentle old Senator George W. Norris, father of TVA, said flatly that McKellar's amendment would be "almost disastrous." Lilienthal said its effect would...
Appointed: Polo's famed Major Tommy Hitchcock, as assistant military attaché for air, in London...