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...connect with an almost-finished pipeline from Longview, Tex. to Norris City. By next June it will carry 300,000 bbl. of crude oil a day, do the work of 8,000 tank cars. The oil, said Harold Ickes, will go to: 1) the armed forces and "undoubtedly will hasten a second front"; 2) war production; 3) "basic" (not general) civilian transportation and health needs. Steel for the new line will be taken away from some other war projects, as recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Before a military second front there must be a spiritual second front. Soviet Russia can hasten its approach by taking following action...
...machinery still being used for nonwar production (or for no production at all) that could and should be put to war production; 2) the vast, uncounted hoard of obsolescing and obsolete machinery that should have been written off and junked long ago. Taking the former would merely hasten the demise of a peace plant which is probably doomed for the duration by materials or labor shortages. (Such a plant would become a case for a War Liabilities Adjustment Board, see p. 81.) Scrapping the latter would wipe the U.S. slate clean of a lot of uneconomic production after...
...offices seethed and simmered. Down the halls went whispers of revolt and counter-revolt. WPB was in the midst of a palace revolution-which would either save the day or hasten the failure...
According to the Navy's present personnel forecasts, it is expected that men in the school who receive the probationary commissions will be allowed to complete their course. There is no guarantee, however, that subsequent events will not hasten the call of these men to active service...