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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned out at maximum speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Getting Under Way | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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