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Hurrah for the Dallas Morning News. It made Sam Rayburn mad and official Washington grumble, but the people of the U.S. got some news -3,300 planes a month, a trainload of tanks a day and from just one factory...
...Speaker Rayburn's spilling of military secrets made Washington grumble. But his words were glad tidings to many a U.S. mother...
...read the War Department record of Mrs. Isbelle's grandson, Private Lewis Stall, as a rifle crack, an Army marksman. Then Sam Rayburn rolled out some red-hot secret figures on the U.S. war effort-figures so secret that newsmen, who had known them for weeks, had not dared to tell them. But the Speaker of the House is not subject to censorship. Said Sam Rayburn: "More than 3,300 planes are pouring out of our factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that...
...Speaker Rayburn's figures were correct, the U.S. would now have an Army of 1,056,000 men scattered over the earth, ready for battle. The Speaker did not specify what he meant by a "battlefront...
Somebody had given Mrs. Isbelle and the News a bum steer. Armed with letters from the War Department, Sam Rayburn entrained for Texas. At Sulphur Springs, to 2,500 cheering, stomping Administration backers, he gave his answer...