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...Army's behest, the directors of Air Associates, Inc. fired President F. Leroy Hill, Vice President Harold I. Crow. This was a condition set up by the Army for return of the company's plant at Bendix, N.J., taken over by the Army last October after a bitter, months-long strike...
...vulnerable eastern hump of Brazil, which sticks out sore-thumb-like on all maps of U.S. grand strategy, is for one U.S. corporation already an active fighting front. The corporation: Pan American Airways. On the hump, Pan Am lines parallel Axis airlines; and there, at U.S. Government behest, Pan Am last week was busy improving or building twelve air bases, ringing the hump...
Rubber Reserve Co., whose efforts to create a rubber stock pile had gathered only 218,000 long tons (less than six months' normal consumption) by the end of July, inched a little closer to its goal last week. At its behest the British-Dutch rubber cartel upped production quotas to 120% of theoretical capacity, or to 1,866,000 tons a year...
Draft boards have no authority to defer older men merely because of age. But, at the behest of national draft headquarters in Washington, local boards, civilian physicians and Army doctors have already begun to find other excuses for deferment...
Last week U. S. art, for all the world like a defense industry, poured its output on the nation. It did so at President Roosevelt's behest. "It is evident that we must find ways of translating our interest in American creative expression into active popular support expressed in terms of purchase." So he wrote three months ago to Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, asking him to head a council for a nationwide celebration of Art Week. Gathering 147 National Council members from every corner of the country, Director Taylor laid plans...