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...hope that Defense spending might be a short cut to plenty and graceful living. The imminence of rationing in steel, in aluminum, in tools, in a dozen lesser consumer-goods necessities made 1941 look like an uncomfortable year. In 1940, consumers did benefit; 1940 produced more guns and more butter. But 1941 would have to produce still more guns and-perhaps-less butter...
...Guna and Butter...
There is no need to default in this struggle simply because we are at war, the Godkin lecturer continued. "The American standard of living and national defense are not inconsistent but complementary." "We can have guns and butter too with out resources and organization." Without both, there can be no democratic morale...
Last week the Roosevelt Administration took up Mr. Wilson's gun-or-butter theme. Fragile, 73-year-old Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson announced that non-military airplanes hereafter will be classed as butter. With chilly disapproval, he quoted a report that booming, under-equipped U. S. airlines hoped by mid-1942 to double the 322 passenger planes now in service. Secretary Stimson told the airlines and their manufacturers to forget that program, count themselves lucky if they can continue their rate of replacement. Said Henry Stimson: "Which is more vital to the nation right now-increased military...
...Check Please"--The Town Tonight 7:35 "Your Concert Master" 8:30 "Lo! The Butter Stinketh," an original play produced by the Radio Workshop 8:45 Bull Session: Varsity football players talk over the Yale game and prospects for next year 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 Instrumental Club: variety show 10:00 Andre Maurois discusses today's literature 10:15 "The Crimson Concert Hall" 10:45 Crimson News and Interview