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...that this week Elmer Davis goes back on the air. Every Friday night henceforth he will broadcast to the people at 9:45 p.m., C.W.T. This was what the U.S. wanted: there are lots of Administrators, Czars and such in Washington, and other agencies whose muddle is like OWI's-but in all the U.S. there is only one voice on the radio with that dry, reassuring twang...
What the people felt was paralleled in Washington's high places. More & more nonmilitary officials threw off the gloom of early 1942, began to see it as a year of hope. The optimism was freighted with ifs, checked with maybes, throttled with per-haps's-but it was there...
...Army was willing to show that armament-it was yesterday's-but the number and caliber of guns on the Warhawk, successor to the Kittihawk, was as much a military secret as Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, the giant 2,000 h.p. fighter...
...University of Rome last week saw its chance. After Napoleon's downfall, France was forced to return much Italian swag-notably the Horses of St. Mark's-but Italy was never satisfied that it had recovered all its rightful treasures. Last week Fascista, the University's official publication, listed demands for more: the Mona Lisa, other Da Vinci works, masterpieces by Titian, which include a portrait of the French King, Francis...
...kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in the eye. He announced: 1) that Big Steel would pay its regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler threw a spanner into steel and other durable goods industries by defeating Mr. Roosevelt's rail equipment plans...