Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of war and sweeping change have given the U.S. a new cast of characters, still undefined, appearing on new stages, still barely seen. There are the army officers and admirals whose names are becoming familiar; the army camps and airfields that are still dim and a little disquieting to citizens. In its war issue, FORTUNE appraises the U.S. war effort from the point of view of editors to whom the new scenes are familiar, the new faces long known. And the net of their appraisal is that the U.S. is not succeeding in the task of organizing itself...
History will decide whether the editors are right or wrong in their gauge of what must be done. But in this view the new smoky stage sets of history become a little clearer; the emerging cast of characters becomes more sharply defined. The time is the present. The time is the extraordinary present, in which the U.S. now-not as it is supposed to be next summer, next year, next millennium, when the air forces are to be built, the two-ocean Navy completed, the Army trained, the finances in order, the citizen cheerful, self-sacrificing, prudent, wise, farsighted, quick...
...defense needs, 45,000 tons. This means a 15,000-ton shortage even for essential requirements, not a single pound to spare for civilian uses such as the auto industry (which normally uses 110,000 tons a year for radiators, ignition equipment, etc.). Other short auto materials include cast iron (for engine blocks) and steel, which also went under full priorities last week (see above "At Last...
Franklin Roosevelt patted his perspiring forehead and glanced at his cluttered desk. There was the same old optimistic cast...
...stop the flooding tide of public, parliamentary and press criticism of the efficiency of the Government's production machinery. Winston Churchill last week cast himself in the role of Canute. In less than an hour and a half he raced through an 80-page speech want the Government to appoint a supreme Minister of Production, Churchill put two questions: Who would be big enough to take the job? What could such a minister do that was not already being done by Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. C. T. Moore-Brabazon, the supply departments...