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...well Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard would do with their new powers (see below), only time would tell. To some Administration critics, it seemed ironic that the men under whom manpower and food situations had steadily worsened, should now emerge as the czars. But the new setup, if not perfect, was far tighter and better than anything tried before in World War II. Much of the divided authority which had kept Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard busy debating instead of working was now clearly and finally determined. How well they would do the job was now, for the first time...
...provide entertainment for some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until the Nips passed...
...Christian Revolutionist York attacked even this sacred cow. In the Church as it is today, said he, "the whole setup of administrative and financial reforms is overdue; the incomes of bishops, especially archbishops, apparently are very high. So long as bishops are looked on as rich men, their spiritual influence will be hindered. Both the Archbishop of Canterbury and I* are most anxious that as soon as possible this cause of offense should be removed...
When these are finished, the U.S. will still remain far behind the Axis, which has 100 short-wave transmitters, even a poor second to Great Britain, which has some 50. But the setup will permit the U.S. to air its point of view to the rest of the world on a new scale...
...everyone had expected (TIME, Oct. 5) the new "Controlled Materials Plan" was in essence a scheme for vertical allocations-in contrast to the horizontal every-producer-for-himself setup that finally strangled its predecessor, the unlamented Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") in its own red tape. From top to bottom, the Controlled Materials Plan provides...