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...Arsenal of Democracy. Small, bellicose Vermont was the first state to declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because the U.S. was "already in a shooting war." In the green hills where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys trod, lean, lank Vermonters turn out landing craft and gun-mounts in Burlington, aircraft ignition parts in Vergennes. The Massachusetts shoreline is one long row of shipyards and shipways, with convoys loading up. Its yards and plants produce everything from the $60 million aircraft carrier Lexington to G.I. shoelaces...
...Bulletin's conservatives are not slow. President-Publisher Robert McLean is also president of the Associated Press. Lank, sandy, shy, he gives editors suggestions and a free hand. His brother, William L. Jr., vice president, looks after the money and the newsprint problem, has his hands full of both. Massive, gregarious Richard W. Slocum became general manager six years ago, has worked steadily against the Bulletin's antiquity, toward a fresh approach in civic matters. Dwight S. Perrin, managing editor since 1939, went to the Bulletin after 13 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His assistant...
Presidential Secretary Steve Early and a little group of White House employes and pressroom regulars clustered in the President's office one noon last week. Mr. Roosevelt buzzed for Assistant Secretary William D. Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late...
Tail-wagging. The debate appeared to be over whether the tail should be allowed to wag the dog. Tweedy, twangy Elmer Davis once headed a twin-sized domestic & foreign organization. Now the Overseas Branch, headed by Robert Emmet Sherwood, 47, the lank three-time Pulitzer Playwright, has about 97% of all OWI employes. The overseas budget is $34 million; the domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers...
Said G.M.'s lank Board Chairman: "The prewar standards of national income passed with the prewar period itself." He suggested that industry must plan to produce for a postwar national income of around $100 billion a year, v. $65-70 billion heretofore.* And, he concluded, G.M. believes so firmly in this new, star-spangled statistic that it is ready to back it with a cool $500 million of new investment in reconversion and expansion. Since business confidence is so much a matter of follow-the-leader, G.M.'s $500 million bet on the postwar world, represented first-rate...