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When all the cars had made several trips in and out of the schoolyard, and the woman in slack became accustomed to running in and out the door and the men with bandages had got used to walking up and down, and the big dog didn't come back any more, everyone began to enjoy his job. The drivers enjoyed letting their motors run and disregarding traffic lights. The faces of the men with the bandages on their arms lost their strained looks, after they had walked off their Sunday dinners. Nor did they look so sheepish when they...
...last Thursday at 9 p.m. the crooner with the deceptively loafing air and unsinkable savvy put on the first request show for the U.S. Front. He walked through it as usual, easing around the Hollywood studio in a blue slack suit, looking, without his movie toupee, like a rapid-fire kewpie. For MacArthur's artillerymen he sang Those Caissons Go Rolling Along-and added "those 155s keep dishing...
...present, the Administration has won a victory over the automobile industry. The powers given Donald Nelson to direct the defense production effort are also proof that the slack is being taken up. But industry is still far from a smiling partner to the deal. There is no reason why the profits of war industry should be investigated twenty years from now. And there are certainly many reasons to show that price administration needs a sterner commander than Herbert Hoover...
When Japan began to build a war economy, she met her first predicament: having virtually full employment already, there was no slack for the new arms industry to take up, and it began to drain civilian goods, food and man power from her factories and farms right away. In the five years 1936-40 her standard of living fell by an estimated 40%. Industrial production, which hit its peak in 1939, has gone downhill ever since. At war with the U.S., Japan cannot increase this production. Only change likely in her dervish economy is the removal of some cotton...
Later Vance Breese really took the ship upstairs, and for the first time Designer Northrop saw his ugly duckling truly in her element. With her wheels tucked up, her humming propellers invisible, she looked like nothing more than an airborne Manta, slack-chinned, glowering through the orifices where her engines take their cooling air. Test Pilot Breese reported that she flew like any other good airplane...