Word: gabfest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every Armistice Day surviving members of the Board and its staff go to New York for a meal and gabfest with their wartime chief. These men, who did the job once, have long been ready to do it over again, if called. But none of them was called to the War Resources Board (chairman: Ed Stettinius) last fall. Baruch himself has been consulted by the President in the current crisis, but not with any idea of giving him the job. If history repeats itself months may pass before industry, combed for "coming men," is given authority to get results...