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...Army & Navy. Economic Czar Byrnes had stepped in to cut away the tangle-but no one was sure last week who would enforce the compromise he had laid down. Manpower Czar McNutt began stretching his muscles with a new work-or-fight order-and Congress promptly raised a howl. Czar Wickard was apparently frozen with fright at the horrible food prospects ahead...
...With some effort I got my pack on my shoulders and trudged up the never ending road in front of me . . . the only nose that broke the stillness was the occasional howl of a lonesome coyote." He was finally picked up by a kindly traveller and from them on had comparatively little trouble...
Promptly Bendix emitted a howl of protest which could be boiled down to five words: we are too damned busy. Just this year the company got through with one ten-month investigation by the Attorney General's office which consumed 1,100 days of Bendix officials' time, involved 25,000 pages of documents from their files, ended in a Federal grand jury's returning no indictment. With a civil suit threatened, the company negotiated for a consent decree, seemed on the point of getting one when, it claims, Arnold made a further stipulation: Bendix must give licenses...
...trouble. Chief controversy raged over one of Eberstadt's appointments: Thomas R. Armstrong, a Standard Oil Co. of N.J. executive, to be chief of his foreign-requirements liaison branch. Because Armstrong was connected in Latin American minds with the fight against Mexico's oil expropriation a howl went up from the State Department, from the Board of Economic Warfare, from Nelson A. Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs...
...long ago you blasted Congress loud and long, and we all thought, "There is justice now and then, regardless of the old proverb." When your turn comes, you howl like kindergarten kids, till the country is persuaded that that is what...