Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first step was taken last spring, after the U.S. State Department had called in short-wave broadcasters to arrange maximum world reception for a speech by President Roosevelt (TIME, May 26). The industry saw the drift, hired a liaison man in the person of Stanley P. Richardson, old A.P...
Senator Francis T. Maloney's committee, picking up the shells one at a time, seemed to reveal no pea at all. After listening to eleven days of testimony, it reported flatly that there was no shortage: the railroads could provide 20,000 now idle tank cars to transport 200...
Rear Admiral Emory Land further volunteered that 26 idle Axis tankers in Latin American ports were available and could also beat the shortage. All this cheery talk just befuddled the public, long warned of gasless Sundays, and threatened with arrest for smoky exhausts or jackrabbit starts. But it did not...
As for the 20,000 railroad cars - that talk made Coordinator Davies twice as mad. Since June he had been needling the defense Transportation Division to find them. New Dealers believed Pelley's surplus was strictly a product of the slide rule; i.e., that he was figuring a surplus...
Caught in a cross fire from suspicious Senators, Davies admitted that even the 27,800,000 deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were...