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Chariey Spreyer and Henry Vander Eb, Varsity grid share, received notices in yesterday's mail that their applications for the United States Marine Service had been accepted. Under the present peace-time setup, if they do enlist they will be able to return to school next preliminary training period this summer. Then after graduation in June of 1942 they will be subject to a year's service with the Leather-necks...
...Emergency Management (an alias for two men, Franklin Roosevelt and his "anonymous" assistant, William H. McReynolds) became the superbody of defense administration. Immediately under it is the Hopkins group, plus the War Cabinet. OEM's physical workshop was the Knudsen-Hillman OPM. The defense program's setup had been reshuffled once more-and, the U.S. hoped, for the last time. Something more than promises must be given Great Britain-and soon. Yet OPM's William Knudsen blandly told the Senate committee investigating defense: "I don't know [whether we could supply the whole world with armaments...
...cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate mill near Los Angeles. He thinks he could complete this setup in twelve months, start producing 1,500,000 tons of steel a year, adding 2% to U.S. capacity...
...industry to make the West independent of the East has long been a pet idea of the Army, was urged by President Roosevelt in 1939. Existing steel companies say it would cost more to make steel on the Coast than to ship it from Chicago. But Kaiser thinks his setup, with no obsolete equipment to carry and with cheap gas and power, could actually make a profit at reduced prices just as his cement plant has cleaned up on bargain rates...
Main part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working lass. They meet, spar, land in a haystack, any their uneasy affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence...