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...work for the Government's subsistence homesteads program, the new administrator is typical of many a departmental expert who has grown up under the New Deal. He was only 29, with eight newspaper years behind him (he left the Sioux City, Iowa Tribune when he won a Buick in a lottery), when he joined the Government, soon became Director of Personnel in the Department of Agriculture, moved thence to his new post. U.S. farm income came to $10,000,000,000 this year, but when the Lend-Lease appropriation passes, Roy Hendrickson will administer a program that will...
...worth of 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radial engines, which Chevrolet and Buick hope to turn out at the rate of 2,000 a month...
...Washington, Price Policeman Leon Henderson said he had never heard of the scheme, predicted: "We'll take care of that." But Leon has not indicated he will disapprove $131 to $202 price increases on the new Buicks. Unless he changes his mind about Buick, he must logically assent to similar boosts on other makes, regardless of who does the boosting...
Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
...aircraft manufacturers are getting air-cooled engines about as fast as they can put them into planes. Combined output of Pratt & Whitney and Wright is about 2,900 engines (2,850,000 horsepower) a month. The supply will be stepped up more than 2 for 1 after Ford, Buick and Studebaker come into production late this fall with their air-cooled engine plants, will jump again when Chevrolet starts producing radials by the fall of 1942. Allison, with production-slowing difficulties now apparently licked, has big production in sight, hopes to catch up with plane production by fall...