Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. If businessmen don't like Franklin Roosevelt, they do not indiscriminately condemn New Deal measures. Their votes on which measures should be kept, modified or repealed ("Don't knows" not listed...
...steel industry with a supposed capacity of 72,000,000 tons of ingots a year, it was estimated that four months will be needed to raise capacity to 85%, a full year to refit obsolete mills and reach 100%. Efficient high-speed producers, like Chicago's Inland, Cleveland's Otis, Detroit's Great Lakes (division of National) were reported to be sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January...
...machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their own problems of obsolescence, and not too much capital available for expansion. But regular customers, foreign and domestic arms makers and U. S. arsenals all want tools...
...sent a persuasive letter: "My office stands ready . . . to provide any information. . . . Our files on trade . . . are comprehensive and complete." To 50 businessmen who had answered by last week's end, Mr. Ogawa and his six Japanese office helpers had a service to offer. No buyer of materials, like Russia's Amtorg, the Japan Foreign Trade Bureau proposed to act as a two-way middleman: not only to help Japanese dealers find markets in the U. S., but to help U. S. merchants sell in Japan. This sounded good, and it was as good an excuse...
...organist of some local repute, and he attracted his first large audiences when, aged 20, he joined the 350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion stayed up at the front 33 days without relief, scoring several direct...