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...Future. A few Republican Senators (Ohio's Taft, Vermont's Aiken, New Hampshire's Bridges) saw fourth-term spadework in the President's hope that returning men & women in the armed services would have: 1) greater economic protection, 2) greater educational opportunities, 3) greater social security...
...protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals-one way of studying what they...
...contradictions, some major, some minor, which have to be resolved before it goes to press. They can be resolved only by discussion and counter-discussion in which the managing editor, one or more senior editors, the chief of research, and the writer and researcher who have done the actual spadework on the story are all involved. The only managerial technique that could stand such a strain is a technique that relies not on rigidity but on the utmost flexibility...
Strategically Africa offers even more. The African bulge juts westward within 1,800 miles of the Brazilian bulge, providing the shortest air route between Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Pan American Airways had pioneered that route before the war and done spadework for the U.S. Air Forces Ferrying Command, which took over the job of shuttling all planes from U.S. factories to the world's battlefronts. The importance of other African routes has skyrocketed in proportion to the decline of British power in the Mediterranean...
Over the Hump? The great hope sprang out of war production. U.S. industrial genius had triumphed beyond belief. WPB had suddenly discovered that its first big job was done. The spadework was over in munitions-making, in getting the many new plants built, in converting the old ones. No one had guessed how much war material the new plants would make- and how fast...