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...Go. The present editor made no pretense of being a Watterson. But well-mannered, well-intentioned George Barry Bingham, at 39 still boyishly handsome, had able lieutenants. The ablest of them, squirrel-cheeked Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, is full of go-ahead schemes. The Washington bureau was expanding ; a fine new building would replace the ancient post office the papers now live in, four blocks south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...done some overlooking himself. On July 1 he gave the auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally...
...Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...three years, became the first industry to get a full-ripe postwar plum. From the War Production Board came the announcement: as of Oct. 15, order L-41, limiting construction of new houses to an $8,000 outlay, will be completely withdrawn (TIME, Sept. 10). Thus builders got the go-ahead for their biggest boom yet, almost entirely free of Government control...
Weighing all this, and satisfied that Kennedy's story had too many details to be suspect, A.P. Assistant General Manager Alan Gould gave the go-ahead. Then the A.P. sat back, waiting for the U.P., I.N.S. and SHAEF to catch up. Instead SHAEF called the story unauthorized, clamped a news embargo...