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Inexhaustible, Hope piles job on job -work, which originally meant the path to glory, has become an end, a need, a form of excitement in itself. His camp tours, by putting him under incredible pressure, have given him an enormous lift. Pleased that he is first in the hearts of...
Mounting stock piles of U.S. matériel, and the recent appointment of Major General George E. Stratemeyer to the command of U.S. air forces in Burma, India and China (TIME, Aug. 30), meant that Lord Louis would have active U.S. aid there. His deputy commander would probably be a...
*Returning from Stalingrad, where he saw immense junk piles of wrecked Nazi planes and tanks, the hard-bitten U.S. Ambassador, Admiral William H. Standley, said: "I can now believe almost any [Red] claims."
And that was the point about the new Congress. The new members worked hard at their lessons. They studied the issues carefully, read through the piles of bills and committee reports, asked searching questions, refused to take a senior member's offhand opinion as gospel.
For nearly two years, beginning in the summer of 1940, Jesse Jones had been charged with the duty of importing stock piles of materials vital to war production. Item by item, Henry Wallace went down the list, showing how many tons the war production agencies wanted, how much Jesse Jones...