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...president of Union College-at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute): "History will say that there were two appropriate times for us to enter this conflict-one in the autumn of 1939 . . . and the other in the summer of 1941, when it was seen to be absolutely necessary in order to avert a German peace...
...whole U.S., carry only 250 barrels a car, and charge a rate many times as high as the cost by tanker. Admittedly, they can't fill the hole. The oil companies, which own most of the pipelines anyway, have therefore turned to pipelines. To avert exhaustion of its eastern stocks, Standard of New Jersey last week started pumping 27,500 barrels of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana crude a day via Tulsa and southern Illinois to its New Jersey refinery, 1,700 miles in all. The cost of this overland routing is 60? a barrel, against 21? or less...
...believe that civil consumption can be cut down by allowing prices to rise as they naturally would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry's recent 20% production curtailment, says that...
...wasted traveling from yard to yard on West Coast highways. If shipbuilding's West Coast labor market was near chaos with 20,000 workers employed now, what would it be by late 1942, when the industry expects to have 70,000 employes? What OPM wanted to do was avert an explosion, not try to pick up the pieces afterward. Out to the West Coast went bald, spectacled Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now on leave as deputy to Sidney Hillman in defense. Last fortnight Lubin returned with a plan that pleased everybody-shipbuilders, union...
...First, by feeding the conquered peoples we avert the hate that those peoples will feel for us if we starve them. Obviously, this is our gain--not Hitler's. But Hitler must agree to the plan because if he does not the same hate will be turned on him. Second, would it be possible for Goebbels to say, "America approves the new order" when America is at war with Germany...