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But the Navy, which finds Brewster 18 months behind schedule on contracts totaling $175,000,000, is almost sick & tired of the whole thing. Retired Navy Captain George C. Westervelt, who ran Brewster for a month when the Navy took it over, reiterated the ominous warning given by James V...
Wildcat (Grumman F4F), to which Under Secretary Forrestal of the Navy referred when he said "In my opinion Grumman saved Guadalcanal." Powered by a 1,200-h.p. engine, the Wildcat is still regarded as better than anything the Jap has, is still being manufactured.
To the Right. The President, moving steadily to the right as the U.S. moved to the right, was shoring up his administration with businessmen and conservatives, such as he had available. Although the views of Messrs. Harriman & Stettinius are more New Dealish than those of most U.S. industrialists, the President...
> Henry Wallace still turns out at 6 o'clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches...
The only Bolivian bond issue in 1926 or 1927 which newsmen could uncover was a $14,000,000 issue of 7% gold bonds offered by Dillon, Read & Co. at 98½. A member of the firm then: James V. Forrestal now Under Secretary of the Navy.