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Robert Ramspeck is a sober, studious Congressman with an affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
Turned down by War Manpower's production urgency committee on a plea to lift his employment ceiling from 42 to , McKinnon won an appeal to the local War Manpower Commission. His argument, backed by Mayor Harley Knox, labor, religious and other groups: there was "community hardship" in that freedom of the press existed only for Colonel Copley's papers...
Thus General Henry Harley Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, reported to the U.S. public this week in the first official summary of Air Forces accomplishments since the U.S. entered the war. Since Pearl Harbor the Army Air Forces has grown to be the world's biggest air power. Said "Hap" Arnold of one of the most dramatic developments of fighting power in history: "It is now plain that for us the beginning has ended; for our enemies the end has begun...
...many people the General's crime was no greater than the Army's in hushing it up for so long. Said Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D. W.Va.) : "When officers make mistakes they should not be shielded...
...Pursuit of Power. Yet the quest for more power in combat aircraft goes on. The new superbombers which General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold seriously promised would make "the Fortresses of today . . . the medium bombers of tomorrow" will see service before this war is over. New fighters, which should be better than anything now flying in combat, are now flying in test before production...