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Maine's Ralph Owen Brewster was most concerned about Lend-Lease, charged that it was being mismanaged, cited as an example of mismanagement the fact that Australia got 30,000 new trucks for civilian use as compared to 15,000 for the U.S., said he would ask the Truman Committee to investigate...
When the little group of professional isolationists tried to capitalize on the ammunition passed them by the Senators, Maine's Brewster stepped in to do some scotching. Said he: "I can serve as Exhibit A for isolationists on our difficulties around the world. Yet I am convinced that we are in the game to stay, and rather than pull out our marbles we had better put more in and learn to shoot straight...
Pilgrims' Progress. Senator Brewster's point, that the U.S. was "in the game to stay," was backed up everywhere by evidence that the U.S. was already hip-deep in world affairs...
...hexed Brewster Aeronautical Corp., which has sandbagged four presidents in 16 months, last week finished off a fifth. Hoarse-voiced, 275-lb. Frederick Riebel Jr., after seven months of falling through trap doors, tripping over wires and hearing noises in the woodwork, gave up and left. The big news was his successor. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, who has been Brewster's board chairman since March, went...
...Japs have a new fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...