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Locked up in Uncle Sam's cupboard were all the potions and powers needed to put the U.S. economy on a full war basis. And last week it looked as if they would stay there, at least for a while...
...with the keys to the cupboard is handsome, hard-driving W. Stuart Symington, 49, who resigned as Secretary of the Air Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
Phantom Orders. Already out of the cupboard is a high priority program known as "phantom orders." These orders, with a current value of $900 million, are full purchase contracts, written up to the last detail, explained to the manufacturer and then locked in his safe. It would take only a telegram from Washington to convert the phantom into a real order and start the goods-machine tools -moving down the production line...
...girls are many, and often truly magnificent, whether in fine feathers or bare flesh. They strut and prance and gorgeously fill the stage, bringing the breath of life to tired businessmen-and God knows what to such as are not tired. Otherwise, Peep Show's cupboard is almost as bare as its chorines. The skits, which Bobby Clark staged but did not act in, are mostly ancient and frightful. The one exception: an almost hilarious take-off on The Cocktail Party. Only a little less crushing than the sketches are the more monumental of the spectacles. One of these...
Went to the cupboard...