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Head of the biggest U.S. naval architecture firm (75% of all U.S. ships, merchant and naval), designer of the method of mass-producing Liberty ships, nine months ago Gibbs was drafted by WPB to head up the country's cargo shipbuilding program. Dour Designer Gibbs unwillingly went to Washington. There he ran head-on into the Maritime Commission which, with an eye on a postwar merchant marine (TIME, Aug. 23), had its own pet shipbuilding program'. Standardizer Gibbs hurled himself into battle. When he left Washington: ^ Merchant-ship types had been reduced from six to three, of which...
...Dour, puritanical President Pedro Ramirez had signed his 7,240th decree since taking office (TIME, June 14) and was still going strong. His Government was efficient as all get-out, but it was channeling Argentine lives into a path of righteousness and cultural uplift as they had never been channeled before...
...Dour-lipped Prime Minister John Curtin rode a Parliamentary bucking horse through the first 23 months of Australia's wartime Labor Government. The Opposition barked at his heels like Kelpie dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition...
...Against. For this reason, Britain strenuously opposed upping of the gold percentages. But Dr. White and dour Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, went ahead anyway. They intend to keep right on going ahead, plumping for their plan before a conference of Federal Reserve Bank officials in Chicago this week, before Congressional committees. Both feel that there are no insurmountable differences between the U.S. and British viewpoints. But the revisions seem to push the U.S. and Britain farther apart...
...dour, able Shipbuilding Controller William Francis Gibbs, father of the Liberty ship which has answered the U.S. need for a swiftly built merchant fleet...