Word: deweyitis
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Last week, Tom Dewey...
John L. Lewis (last week his United Mine Workers came out for Dewey), the candidate said: "My plans are not definite...
...weekly 18 holes of golf (see cut). He shot a 94. The rest of the time was given to plans for the Governors' Conference, which he will go over with John Bricker this week. Just before leaving for New York, Candidate Bricker made the first comment of the Dewey-Bricker team on the Democratic Convention. Said he, scratching his brow: "Truman-that's his name, isn't it? I never can remember that name...
...only real answer is greater production. The original 1944 goal was 17,500,000 heavy tires for civilian and military uses; thus far, production had averaged about 1,200,000 tires a month. To boost production, Rubber Boss Dewey got the Army to release fully trained tire workers over 30, and stepped up the pace of the $75,000,000 equipment-expansion program...
...Tires for Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...