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Most Americans now 40 were still in their 20s when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House; thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors fighting around the world remember no other President. Yet associates still marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...
...provide an overall plan, short, sharp-eyed Arthur Dare Whiteside, boss of WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements, is sweating his small staff twelve hours a day. Their first task: to find out what is the bedrock level of U.S. civilian needs. This is a Gargantuan job. In peacetime, 300,000 consumer articles were turned out by U.S. factories. In wartime, OCR Boss Whiteside thinks bedrock may be a mere fraction of these, some 1,500 to 2,000 articles. Soon OCR Boss Whiteside will have his list, will know for the first time what items are needed, what...
...conference might be criticized for its failure to indicate specifically the Gargantuan size of the job ahead, and to specify ways & means of accomplishing...
Mandolin to Management. Salmaggi's methods of financing are a mystery even to his closest associates. He has made enough money to own a huge 19-room villa in Brooklyn, where his wife cooks gargantuan spaghetti dinners for the 300 relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi...
Also important in the magnesium boom is the electrolytic process of Basic Magnesium's gargantuan plant near Las Vegas, Nev. This method was originated in Germany by I. G. Farbenindustrie and also successfully used in England. Magnesite (the carbonate), plentiful and high in metal content, is calcined, then converted to the chloride from which the metal is reduced electrolytically. Now operated for the Government, the plant has been shipping magnesium since August...