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Other, lesser U.S. possessions seemed to have been mislaid also. Where were the rubber tires? (see p. 15). Westbrook Pegler solemnly proposed death-the treatment for horse thieves in the Old West-for such U.S. curs as stole tires. Liberal journals thundered at Jesse Jones: "Where are our tin factories?" The Auto Workers Union thundered (in half-page advertisements) at "Mr. OPM." One thunderclap: "Where is the Reuther Plan?" Samuel Grafton, most belligerent columnar thunderer for the New Deal, thundered at the State Department (for protesting the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miqueloa): "Where Is Our Foreign Policy...
...drudgery, guarding a stretch of the California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing...
...Near East, that object will be all but accomplished. The pincers will close on Russia and China. Without supply they will almost inevitably succumb. The pincers will then be reversed to close in on Britain and the U.S. -both cut off by then from their war supplies of tin and rubber. The pincers would close first on the outposts of the Western Hemisphere (Britain and Australia), next on America itself. The Battle of the Hemispheres would be joined, with the U.S. on the short...
...plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...Tin Pan Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. It had been carpentered during a rehearsal of Cantor's show. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...