Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressive swan song, WPBoss J. A. ("Cap") Krug reported on U.S. war production. Said Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies at the Axis. The report's most remarkable highlight: "Great as our war effort was, at no time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress...
...prewar jobs: Field Operations Vice Chairman James A. Folger to his coffee company in San Francisco ; Operations Vice Chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the presidency of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co. WPB has set up an employment agency to help place smaller fry, has found industry eager to snap them up. Cap Krug has been offered a job with Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., was rumored to be dickering with Atlas Corp., but he has not yet decided what he will do. "I'm as obsolete as a machine gun," said Cap Krug...
...tray and matches, then was led in, shook hands with the Son of Heaven ("I did not bow nor was I asked to"). He and the Emperor chatted about ten minutes before "I backed out, walked back down the hall to the waiting room to pick up my overseas cap." The U.P. president got 25 minutes and was allowed to sit within three feet of the Emperor, to drink tea and smoke Turkish cigarets with...
...prove his point, Dr. Daley had an artist make tracings of Mono, Lisa, Titian's Man in a Red Cap and Holbein's Erasmus and alter the tracings to show how "dull and uninteresting" they look with noses altered to suit modern standards. As further evidence he has kept his own magnificently large, arched, craggy and overhanging...
Wartime controls were lifted faster than the most hopeful had ever expected. War-born bureaus cut their staffs with vigor (WPB was down to 11,000 from a high of 23,000). Said WPBoss "Cap" Krug: ''The way to get going is to get going...