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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policy Change. Ford executives had plenty of excuses (not all of them good) for their late start. Since production was started, the Army has made 575 master changes in B-24 design, but this has happened in varying degree to all other airplane makers. To achieve the present production, Henry Ford himself was forced to change a basic policy. When Willow Run was built, Ford mistakenly vetoed all Army suggestions that some parts for the Liberators be produced elsewhere. Now the sub-assemblies are being farmed out in the Detroit area...
Republicans got in the smack, and it was a beauty, reminding bystanders of nothing less than the 1932-1936 Democratic efforts of wily Charley Michelson, the Old Master, who had a knack of making the Republicans look like stumblebums. Replying to Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker's suggestion that the 1944 campaign be held late, G.O.P. Chairman Harrison Spangler wrote: "We are willing to accept your plan for a short campaign ... if you can and will give assurance that Mr. Roosevelt does not have the ambition for and will not accept nomination for a fourth term. ... If you find...
Most of the teaching is in the hands of Business School professors as in all the other schools across the river except the Navy Supply. Several Quarter-master Corps officers handle certain specialized subjects, however...
Onward with the Arts. Basis of its gaudy plot was that as a beginner in the ring Beau Jack, the illiterate former Augusta Golf Club bootblack, had once sparred with Armstrong. Master Armstrong proposed to give Pupil Jack another boxing lesson. Purred Armstrong: "I can't forget the look of ... adoration in his eyes when he [first] saw me. . . . Just like my little daughter...
...window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel. An unhappy ending follows naturally and is attained with all the Russian genius for melancholy. Chekhow perceives and portrays the dreamlike weakness of his characters, their inability to face and master the problems engendered by circumstance; but, at the same time, he holds out for those millions who know not why they suffer, the hope for a better world to come and the thought that "our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after...