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Many a critic of OPM considered Bill Harrison too easygoing, too unimaginative to do a bang-up production job; and Nelson himself recently complained that Harrison was a disbeliever in conversion. But Nelson holds that Harrison was a victim of OPM's faulty direction, has faith that he will deliver the goods. Into Harrison's lap also falls the ticklish problem of subcontracting-with Financier Floyd B. Odium, who made the most recent unsuccessful attempt to solve it, moving to a nebulous post as "adviser...
Stretching its yearly budget of $75 to $315 by getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged...
...pressed for heavy use of tanks. He did a better-than-average job in the worse-than-average war with Finland; he did an excellent job as head of the Kiev military district, and, perhaps most important, a bang-up job as a hater of Germany in the months when Russians were not supposed to hate Germany...
From such signs as these any citizen could well conclude that Ordnance was doing a bang-up job. Yet in the rat-runs of official Washington he could hear a different, an almost contradictory story-that Ordnance, bumbling, inefficient, stupid, had botched its job, is headed for an inevitable shakeup...
...beginning, Johnny Johnson could see daylight ahead. The civilian schools were doing a bang-up job. Training-plane production was going up & up. By next November the training rate will have hit 12,000 a year and the Army will have plenty of schools (seven fields for intermediate training, eleven for advanced) to finish off the work. But big as the training program was, it had been dwarfed by the huge shadow of war ahead. On April 3, Johnny Johnson got a new program-a production of 30,000 trained military pilots a year...