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...private hands. In general, the DPC plants are more expensive to operate as a unit than are Alcoa's, because they are not as well integrated, i.e., fabricating plants are often hundreds of miles from ingot plants. To get them into production fast, many were built to mesh with Alcoa's own plants. The DPC plants can compete, said Tom Clark, only with the help of Government subsidies. But if Alcoa is broken up, the "need for subsidies" will be eliminated...
...return to the Philippines he would strike the hated Empire. But there were not enough land-based aircraft to defend the Philippine beachhead; twice the chafing Third Fleet was recalled to give tactical support. The first carrier-plane strikes on the Tokyo area, which had been scheduled to mesh with the first B-29 attacks on the enemy capital, had to be canceled. Admiral R. A. Spruance got in ahead in February ; Halsey had to be content with storming into the South China Sea, and waiting months for his great chance...
...Chief of Staff sent him first to Britain, then to Africa in 1942. In addition to his natural ability to get along with people, Eisenhower acquired the knack of hitting it off with other nationals, notably the British. In Africa his command structure was a complex but smooth-working mesh of U.S. and British officers, and he carried the same formula back to England when he was chosen to head the invasion. Of the six men on his Supreme Command, four were British...
...left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last thousandth of an inch. These two temperamental opposites mesh into the smoothest team in the aircraft industry...
...King (now the Navy's top man), had to make and mesh their own rules. Navy gun crews had to be taught how to fire at beaches instead of at ships; marines had to learn how to scamper down rope cargo nets, what to do once they had waded ashore. They learned the tedious but vital facts of combat loading...