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...have not turned out to be super-duper pilots-but as good as the U.S. Army turns out," he said. "That's important. Because we had one handicap: people assumed we were not producing because we were Negroes. Our men have been under a strain because of the civilian attitude. It is remarkable that they kept up their morale. But now that we have produced, things have changed...
...plants are from six to nine months behind construction schedule, are still only 85% completed. The flow of butadiene from them is discouragingly small. Oilmen wrathfully blame the delay on ex-Rubber Boss Jeffers, who gave the alcohol-processing plants a long head start by handing out super-duper priorities to all of them. The oilmen got what was left...
...answer the last, no investigation is needed. Everyone in Washington knows that when Jeffers won his super-duper priority from WPB, last December, the high-octane program suffered. Just how much is a military secret. But privately Washington whispers that monthly pro duction falls thousands of barrels below requirements. So far, the shortage has not interfered with overseas operations; the danger is in the long-term outlook...
...memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
Anyone who has seen Harvard in the two games it has played knows that this quality of super-duper defense under pressure which W & M possesses constitutes a distinct threat to Crimson hopes. For in both the Pennsylvania and North Carolina Pre-Flight contest the team was able to get down past the opponent's five yard line, but still failed to score...