Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent the return of gangster rule...
...generally, fail the church. That's a popular subject-it's an easy one. Instead, I'm going to talk about how the church has failed me. . . . And the way it is failing me is, I think, a key to the way it is failing and due to continue to fail society...
...jeopardizes the economy of our country . . . thousands of small manufacturers [are] dying for steel; for lack of steel, failures of small businesses are becoming a daily occurrence." Kaiser also managed to get in a plug for his old plea that RFC should wipe out the $85 million balance due on Fontana (TIME, June...
...economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce the new capacity of ten million tons...
Output Down. Labor disputes, shortages of materials and absenteeism due to the heat swelled the total of idle automotive workers to more than 80,000, slowed the industry's production to a weekly total of 79,699 cars and trucks (compared to 97,712 the week before and 108,472 at the postwar peak in March...