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In the Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a...
In the peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction.
As possible causes of the blast, the fourth explosion in U. S. powder works within five weeks,* employes and officials guessed at spontaneous combustion or some fault with the compressor in the recovery building. But, mindful of disasters in U. S. munitions factories during World War I, agents of FBI...
The Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to...
Standard capacity of each of the 18 plants making explosives will be 200,000 lb. in an eight-hour day. Not until all are built, not until the 15 supplementary loading and fuse plants are completed, can General Wesson and his staff of technicians breathe easily. They will not breathe...