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Johnny turns out to be dodging the law for an old murder charge. His flight dumps him into the outwardly grim but inwardly golden presence of Hap O'Connor (Pat O'Brien), a straw boss in charge of a gang of roughnecks who shuttle from field to field drilling wells. When Johnny saves Hap's life they become friends, exchange cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle...
Typical were the difficulties and explanations of the Army and Navy air chiefs. Army Air Corps Major General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold had orders placed to complete a force of 5,500 planes by October 1941, had the money for 4,200 more, now asked for funds to run his total this year up to $2,295,000,000. The Navy's Rear Admiral John Henry Towers had 1,746 useful aircraft on hand, 2,489 on order, money for 1,478 more, now asked $550,000,000 for 4,028 additional planes. Congressmen logically wanted to know...
Said unhappy "Hap" Arnold: "We have not placed the contracts [for 4,200] . . . due to the fact that the industry feels that there are so many uncertainties, unknown quantities that they have to contend with. . . . The Vinson-Trammell [profit limitation] Act has something to do with it; taxes; uncertainties with regard to labor. ..." Said Rear Admiral Towers, recalling that Congress had cut the allowed profit on Navy contracts and Army aircraft contracts from 12 to 8%: "There are two reasons. The reduction in . . . profit . . . has made it very difficult for the aircraft manufacturer to place subcontracts [which] work out about...
Army and Navy officers themselves caused some confusion. "Hap" Arnold had to correct previous, erroneous testimony by the Chief of Staff (that contracts had been let for the 4,200 unordered Army planes). The Navy's chief shipbuilder, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, testified that, despite difficulties, "we have been able to go ahead with our shipbuilding program . . . we are not being held up." He was contradicted next day by Rear Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials...
...maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...