Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Integrated Wings. The merit of an air force that is part of the Navy with which it operates is that it is bound to cooperate with the fleet in action. The demerit of that relationship is that the development of the vital air arm may be retarded by seagoing officers who by habit think in terms of water rather than air fighting...
...polite conversation, other steelmen call Ernest Weir "difficult"; they call him other things over drinks. Main fact about the relationship is that his mills are newer and his costs lower than most of the in dustry. Hence he has no more desire to cooperate with his rivals on price matters than had the young Henry Ford (who has not joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association to this day). For lone Weirwolves, the high-cost atmosphere of the A.I.S.I. is oppressive. But Mr. Weir will continue to confront Messrs. Fairless, Grace, Girdler, et al. at the councils of Steel's Defense...
Some price hikes probably are inevitable, but Henderson thinks many of them can be prevented. For one thing, he knows the existing freight-rate structure bears no systematic relationship to railroad costs. He also knows that more than half the increased traffic now in sight would move from south to north and from west to east-the directions in which the costly movement of empty freight cars is now heaviest. Meanwhile the railroads have been experimenting with low rates for trainload hauls. Moreover, railroad net operating income has risen sharply this year. If Henderson is to prevent price increases...
...year the School has offered courses based largely upon material secured in cooperation with the Army War College on industrial, mobilization, priorities, and the economic problems of national defense, which will from the framework of the new plan and give men taking the course an understanding of the increasing relationship between the country's military effort and industrial activity...
...instances there has even been remarkable progress." U.S. Catholics say there has been no such persecution of Roman Catholics under Franco. Catholicism is once more an established church, with clerical salaries paid by the Government, and religious orders including the Jesuits have had their expropriated property restored. But the relationship is not wholly happy, for Franco and the Vatican are deadlocked over his demand for the same veto power on the investiture of bishops that the monarchy exercised under the 1851 Concordat. As a result, nearly half the sees are vacant, and Spain has had no primate since Isidore Goma...