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...Next day Tsar Petrillo melted somewhat. Said he: "We don't want to break the recording or transcription companies. . . . They have to live and we have to live. . . . We just aren't going to let them live at our expense. Maybe we will compromise. Maybe...
...Molotov was something to be proud or ashamed of. The silence may have given the Russian politician some protection from Nazi interference as he flew around in his big, lumbering Soviet plane. But no such protection has been deemed necessary for other important Allied figures (e.g., British Production Tsar Oliver Lyttelton, Harry Hopkins, General Brehon Somervell) after they had safely reached Washington or London...
...Other non-Germans who have received various classes of Order of the German Eagle: Benito Mussolini, General Francisco Franco, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines. Watson sent his back...
Criticism was sharp and hot against the men responsible for the program: Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, shipping tsar and his sidekick Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery in the Maritime Commission. Critics inside the Administration gave up sniping, got down to the objective of getting leathery, salty "Jerry" Land out. They leveled three withering charges against the whole U.S. shipbuilding program: there was no real central control; there was a dismal lack of coordination; there had been an all-around failure to anticipate needs. They even had a candidate to take Jerry Land's place: the West Coast...
...Atlantic seaboard one of the most critical combat areas in the world. Navy men, scouring the waters with surface and aircraft, knew it well. So did the National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...