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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please correct "In 48 years of motor making, Ford has never sold a six-cylinder car" (TIME, Sept...
...Correct Administrative Difficulties...
...minor leagues of the deb party circuit. They're on the dull side, and early, and feature no drinking. House dances are O.K. if you go with some friends, but not many Freshmen do. Girls' college dances are aabout the best fun; the Statler and Copley are the conservatively correct places to go dancing after football games, but they're pretty stuffy...
...aircraft, but not to other Army items. Results: 1) the Navy could not place some contracts because the Army could offer manufacturers a higher profit; 2) some manufacturers preferred to do business with the British, or even with private customers, who put no limitations on profits. If this was correct, Mr. Roosevelt's Defense Commission had not done so well at clearing up such conflicts as was generally supposed...
Army and Navy officers themselves caused some confusion. "Hap" Arnold had to correct previous, erroneous testimony by the Chief of Staff (that contracts had been let for the 4,200 unordered Army planes). The Navy's chief shipbuilder, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, testified that, despite difficulties, "we have been able to go ahead with our shipbuilding program . . . we are not being held up." He was contradicted next day by Rear Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials...