Word: rearmaments
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...immeasurably more good by staying out than by getting in." The Century has carefully opened its columns to the views of leaders on both sides, and Editor Hutchinson agrees that an overwhelming majority of the Protestant clergy favor aid to Britain and are not opposed to U. S. rearmament. He believes that if all-out aid to Britain must include war, the clergy would split 60% against, 40% for-a very marked change since...
...retail sales. President Frank McConnell Mayfield's keynote was grim. Said he: ". . . the waving of flags and singing of God Bless America will not solve the problem. . . . The principal concern of retailing as it faces a New Year is to further the progress of national rearmament...
...Division of Defense Housing Coordination to supersede all ordinary Federal domestic housing agencies (Army & Navy divisions, FHA, USHA, credit agencies), with enormous powers to force and speed construction wherever rearmament or military programs create housing emergencies. Chief: balding Charles Forrest Palmer, 48, of Atlanta, Ga., housing expert of NDAC; salary, $9,000 a year...
Crossed Lines. Ideally the rearmament program should be progressing in three neat parallel lines of administration, management, labor. But last week the lines were wavering, crossing, occasionally colliding head on. Congressmen raised longer and louder cries for legislation outlawing strikes in defense industries. The President himself had said: "The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts." Among the crossed-up lines last week...
...than at any time in U. S. history except for six months in boom 1929.* By December 1941, 6,000,000 more men will be working, said the Defense Commission. Business hummed toward record activity (see p. 80). The U. S. was rapidly moving through the first phase of rearmament: total mobilization of the national economy into one vast productive effort...