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...good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen, to send all over Latin America young men who astonished the natives with their apparent naïvete. The State Department, which cherished the professional's distaste for the amateur and had not been consulted about the Committee's creation, developed toward it an attitude of chilly reserve...
Count Basie, personal commentaries and band included, will be the feature attraction on the Crimson Network this evening. The Count will be featured in a special two hour Hall studio at 9 o'clock, and his band will be featured i na special two hour broadcast, beginning at 10 o'clock...
Defense's first year looked, to. some like a three-cornered race for "fat" among business, labor and agriculture. The Na tional City Bank estimated that 390 leading industrial corporations lifted their profits by 32% in 1940. The boom also upped manufacturing labor's payrolls by 27% (partly due to re-employment, partly to wage increases, partly to over time). Agriculture, its income up only 6% in 1940, felt business and labor had been going ahead too fast; so agriculture demanded increased subsidies to keep up in the race...
...people who had not contributed money but who read its literature, spread its faith. A Gallup poll last week estimated that 8,000,000 U. S. citizens, thinking of the post-war world, believe in an international federation of some such kind as Federal Union advocates. In its busy na tional and regional offices Federal Union ists were confident that they were at last solidly organized and growing fast...
...cannon and four .50-calibre machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army's new four-motored Consolidated ("Liberator") does a fancy (for a bomber) 335 m.p.h., has a range of 3,000 miles with...