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...With a gleam in his eye, Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser sat down before the Senate's Small Business Committee. Said he, with no preliminary hems & haws: Congress had not yet set a decisive policy governing the disposal of over $15 billion in Government-owned war plants; it is high time Congress did. Forthwith, Mr. Kaiser laid down what he thought that policy should be. The key point: the Government should sell the plants with the primary aim of creating jobs rather than wringing out the last possible dollar for itself...
Follow the Gleam. In Washington, the Office of Price Administration rhapsodized: "Procedures under the transfer are formalized in General Order ODT-21A which superseded General Order ODT21 as amended, and in Amendment 1 to ODT Administrative Order No. 8, Amendment 2 to ODT Administrative Order No. 15, and in Amendment 156 to OPA Ration Order 5-C-Gasoline, all effective October 16th...
...dark, and fog hanging over the flat Indiana countryside rushed steadily back into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair...
...Marshall to Prime Minister Churchill at Chequers in 1942, and a glamorous career was laid out for it. It was to be used in a suicide raid on hydroelectric plants in Norway. Later its mission was changed to simultaneous paratroop raids on key power plants scattered through Europe. Another gleam in the planners' eyes: a parachute raid on Berchtesgaden to kill Adolf Hitler...
...clear afternoon you can see the wide sweep of the Bay, from the Marin hills to the ship-clogged docks of the Embarcadero, watch great grey convoys moving out the Golden Gate. At night city lights gleam far below, the first fighting men have seen in many months...