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This astronomic increase came out of a Washington confab between the auto makers, the Army & Navy and SPAB. First official announcement came from Chrysler which said it had been asked to triple its tank output (its tank arsenal is already the world's largest), double its output of anti-aircraft guns. One sign of total collaboration-to-come between Detroit and Washington: G.M. created a new War Emergency Committee under Vice Chairman Donaldson Brown, and sent arch-diplomat Dick Grant to Washington for the duration...
...just a piddler," all-American Chub Peabody asserted yesterday noon at the coaches and sports writers weekly confab at the Palmer House where he was the guest of honor...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
Following the lead of a coaches confab out in Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds bounced out of a one-hour confab with President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes one noon last week to announce the biggest expansion of U.S. power capacity ever heard of. Dimensions: five years...