Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse Jones has an expediter. "Keep on their tails," said he to tall, knife-thin Clarence Francis, who took a leave from the presidency of General Foods to do the job. "Keep on their tails," said Clare Francis to some 20 other top-notch executives who volunteered to man his 17 regional offices. The tails: those of some 500 corporations now building more than $3,000,000,000 worth of new war plants with Jesse Jones's money...
Jones, accused of being a bottleneck, needed an expediter and got a good one. Expansion-minded Clare Francis had long preached more production for the U.S., practiced it at General Foods. Back in 1935 he said: "We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories . . . rebuild, modernize." Now that the U.S. is rebuilding, Clare Francis' job is to see that nothing delays the job. Quartered near Jones's office in Washington, he no longer has time for the winter vacations he could take in his favorite Honolulu when he was preaching...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...
...time he was writing, Homer Lea said the islands could be captured by Japanese as easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only a few weeks ago, U.S. officers in the Philippines told Author-Correspondent Clare Booth about Homer Lea because his conception of a Japanese attack on the Philippines was still valid even in many details...
...From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...