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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something is happening that Adolf Hitler does not yet understand-a new re-enactment of the old American miracle of wheels and machinery, but on a new scale. This time it is a miracle of war production, and its miracle-worker is the automobile industry...
...strong, mightily equipped, perhaps enough to make a real difference in the battle for Australia. The Army's communiqué spoke only of "considerable numbers," gave no exact information as to strength. But if the Japs should enter Australia this week, they would find, on a slightly larger scale, the story of Java, where a few U.S. bombers had too little fighter protection, where a few hundred artillerymen were the sole ground troops...
Students in the war preparation course for government jobs, the department insists, will not be unfit for peacetime work. They will receive the usual foundation in economics but on a more concentrated and demanding scale with added emphasis on techniques. All students studying for government work, for example, will probably be required to take Math A and courses in Statistics and Accounting. At the present time, these courses are entirely voluntary...
...democratically controlled" international bank "to make development capital available in all parts of the world without the predatory and imperialistic aftermath so characteristic of large-scale private and governmental loans...
Castings began to replace forgings on a big scale in 1932 when Ford first poured V-8 crankshafts instead of hammering them. Since then 10,000,000 Ford crankshafts have been cast with such success that many another part is made in the same way. But the trend toward casting did not get up real speed until many foundrymen last year began to fear that war contracts, escorted by priorities, would pass them by without...