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...slippered, balding millions were not complaining; they just wanted to know. Few had any notion where they would wind up in total war. Washington had given the nod to local draft boards for induction on June 1 of some of the oldsters who registered Feb. 16. But that meant little or nothing. An estimated 84% of them have dependents...
...Charlie Sorensen started making Pratt & Whitney airplane engines before they even had an order. When the Government finally asked Ford to put up a Pratt & Whitney plant, he figured that OPM had set its sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...
...Ford crankshafts have been cast with such success that many another part is made in the same way. But the trend toward casting did not get up real speed until many foundrymen last year began to fear that war contracts, escorted by priorities, would pass them by without a nod...
...something like this: "It is not enough to win the war; we must also win the peace." This tricky grouping of words is rapidly becoming one of the less palatable platitudes of our day. It has over-tones of piety which deny explanation, and most people are satisfied to nod their approval, and let it go at that...
...defense, Bud Carstensen and Captain Dick Mechem get the nod for starting posts, and Gus Sommers, whose defensive play has limited the opposition to three goals in four encounters, guards the cage...