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...recommend the appointment of my grandson, Henry Ford II, as my successor." The board, controlled lock, stock & proxies by old Henry, considered the "recommendation," obediently upped Young Henry, 28, from executive vice president to president...
...Mobilizer (22 months). As a Congressman he learned the ropes on the Appropriations Committee. In the Senate, he became the de facto leader, a shrewd trader who knew the likes and prejudices of his colleagues by heart. He was a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man; he supported the New Deal lock, stock & barrel, except for those measures which clashed with his conservative, Southern-blooded, economic beliefs...
This was the picture facing most of Nazidom's living ex-rulers, now under lock & key in the city jail at Nuremberg, where the first trials will take place in September. Now that Russia had entered the Pacific war, it would probably also be the picture for those Japanese war lords who do not commit harakiri...
...vanliners" (large enough to carry 14 rooms of unpacked furniture cross-country) and "portal vans" (detachable from trucks for hoisting aboard ocean liners). When the Government evicted the West Coast Japanese in 1942, Bekins moved more than 60% of them to relocation centers. When the Ninth Service Command moved lock & stock from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Bekins handled most of the job. Last week, in Los Angeles County alone, the company moved more than 1,000 families...
...kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other things, provide power for a string of greatly needed fertilizer factories. A lock system on the man-made lake will permit 10,000-ton steamers to sail from Shanghai to Chungking itself...