Word: somes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steel, the big muscle of U.S. production, was just as palsied. Three weeks of strike in its mills had been enough to hobble the huge U.S. auto industry. Ford Motor Co. prepared to halt production and lay off most of its 115,000 workers by mid-November. Packard worked on...
Smaller users of steel fell unhappily into line with production cuts or layoffs. Among the big employers were General Electric, the Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing...
"I find some comfort in the fact," he continued in his characteristic high-pitched voice, "that we have a long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near...
"Fancy Dans." The admirals had said that the Navy's power and prestige were being "nibbled to death" and that their service's morale was being wrecked. Replied Bradley sharply: "Senior officers decrying the low morale of their forces evidently do not realize that the esprit of the...
Was it true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force...