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...Girdler's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. proudly announced that it is the "world's largest producer of airplanes." In 1943, it claimed to have delivered more planes "by weight and number" than any other company...
...Chiang of China. She is a better orator than Churchill, a better statesman than Eden, a better politician than Roosevelt, a better globe-girdler than Willkie, and more loyal to her own people than Stalin...
Future labor historians will be glad to have Tom Girdler's version of the battle of Little Steel, as his side of the story, but with the evidence of the Senate La Follette Civil Liberties report at hand, they will not accept it as being fully authentic...
...Girdler Mind. Eagle-bald, hawk-nosed Tom Girdler, at 66, has one possession of which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler...
Seeking an answer to the problem of Labor & Management, Tom Girdler voices some emphatic conclusions. No lover of unions, he insists that they are necessary, equally insists that under the present Administration they are a disorganizing influence in American industry. Holding that America's future is a great challenge to the managers of American industry, Girdler ends with the suggestion that management will be unable to meet the challenge unless wartime emergency controls are lifted. He concludes...