Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Ernest R. Breech, who is Board Chairman of North American Aviation, Inc., we will need a standing airforce of about 24,000 military planes after the next armistice is signed,-and that means even if the U. S. takes an important role in policing the world. If you allow for a replacement demand of 6,000 planes a year, this will still only give employment to about 100,000 men- or less than 20 per cent of the number that will be working in aircraft production by 1944. That leaves a fat remainder of 400,000 or more...
...what with the comings & goings, Major Wilde's commander, Lieut. General Arthur Ernest Percival, had less than an hour in which to make his decision...
...Minister of War Production (TIME, Feb. 16). Although Beaverbrook's job was compared to Donald Nelson's in the U.S., it was clear that, at best, the Beaver will have only a half-Nelson on war production. Power over labor remains the primary concern of his rival, Ernest Bevin. The Supply Ministers will still answer to Parliament and may appeal over Lord Beaverbrook's head to the War Cabinet. About the only person who seemed satisfied with the appointment was Lord Beaverbrook himself. Chirped he: "I am willing to mix diplomacy with decisions, providing I always...
...Gave Ernest Kanzler the job of converting auto plants to defense work...
...Admiral Ernest J. King got a present of a sleek, dark green town car to use in Washington. The donor: A. & P. Vice President Arthur G. Hoffman, who has no yacht to give the Navy...