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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each card is indexed by name, locality, product and capacity a manufacturer who has agreed to turn out a stipulated quantity of army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
...train them in military production. This week Mr. Johnson submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World War the army could not get enough Springfield rifles at home, had to turn to European suppliers. Important in industrial as well as military mobilization is a Selective Draft Act prepared for passage on M Day. Key provision so far as U. S. industry and labor are affected is a section authorizing draft boards to "exempt...
...cracked last week: "If you could get together all those people who think they are Supermen and who really are not, it is my firm belief that they could work out a plan for peace. Peace can be planned in just the same way as an attack against cancer. My main proposal is that there should be a World Peace Conference...
Captain Carlson told how Chinese bands cross Japanese lines with ease, raid Japanese bases to get supplies; how Chinese guerrillas have set up well-functioning administrations which do everything from harrying the Japanese to keeping schools open; how they maintain their own small arsenals, form cooperatives to sell foodstuffs, have opened a bank which issues guerrilla money that the peasants gladly accept. At this bank Captain Carlson had no trouble in cashing a traveler's check...
Paris newshawks learned that not only Deputies but also clerks and the Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...