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...Nub of the emergency program was Hog Island, on the Delaware River just below Philadelphia. There rose the world's largest shipyard: 250 buildings, 80 miles of railroad tracks, 50 shipbuilding ways, 28 outfitting berths. Hog Island was not strictly a shipbuilding plant but a ship-assembly plant. Most Hog Islanders were identical...
This statement was the nub of a survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...
...Nub of the Conference's discussion was war: how to keep rising prices from skyrocketing, whether national defense would increase or diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time...
...Nub of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's charge was that Pullman has: 1) monopolized the making of and operation of sleeping cars; 2) charged railroads and the public unreasonably high rates for sleeping car service; 3) forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action...
First reaction to this statement was consternation. It looked like a retreat from the U. S. position, stated again & again. That reaction was premature. Nub of the President's case was that if Germany claimed territory in the Western Hemisphere, the U. S. would invoke the Monroe Doctrine. It would not seize the islands or other possessions of the conquered nations for itself. Its position would be that the fate of such possessions should be decided "by and among all the republics of this hemisphere." If a Monroe Doctrine operated in Asia, it would mean that in deciding...