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NAVY The Senate was willing to authorize the Navy to build 900,000 tons of new warships. The Navy sc'aled the figure down to 150,000 tons. Then the amateur strategists began to strut their stuff. Air power, said they, had made the battleship obsolete. The Navy had reduced its tonnage because it was afraid to build battleships, after the Hawaii fiasco...
...year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...
...should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half the 900 machine tools used to make the Bofors gun are being taken from the automobile assembly lines. Eleven different Chrysler divisions are supplying parts for the bombers. The 250 Army trucks that come off Dodge production lines every day represent better than half the total daily production...
From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...
...Goodman poaching on the Society's preserves. His improvisations were never written by anybody, and most of the tunes he uses are of his own non-ASCAP concoction. Since his band plays better when jitterbugs jig, WJZ provided space for the more delirious members of the audience to strut their stuff. Feature of each broadcast is incidental jazz shop talk by Maestro Goodman, retailing in the self-conscious argot of swing the doings of various other popular musical heroes. Sample chatter...