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...asked motorists in 16 Atlantic States voluntarily to cut gasoline consumption one-third. To see how voluntary reduction works, Ickes also asked 19 large oil retailers to compile weekly retail-sales reports. Hot-headed Harold Ickes will get even hotter if the figures show the noncompliance everyone expects. Probable upshot: gasoline ration cards (or a reasonable facsimile) by fall...
...history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts to $6,000,000,000. But as for the 20% cut in '42 new-car production agreed on last May, that "doesn...
...upshot of it all was that the Harvard team was offered a "choice" of three courses: either the team would voluntarily bench the colored player, or Navy would forfeit the game if Harvard insisted on his playing, or Willson would call up Harvard's officials and let them make the decision. The last alternative was taken, and a few hours later a telegram came requesting the negro not to play...
...visit to Ankara was apparently quite successful. Earlier in the week German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had practiced the standard Hitlerian strategy of showing Turkish officials a cinema of Germany's western conquests. Anthony Eden countered by exhibiting films of Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought the Soviet Government...
...yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick M. Eaton, Wall Street lawyer of the firm of Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin. New Dealers wanted almost anyone else to get the post. The struggle went on from the day the President announced the OPM (Dec. 20) until last week. Upshot: the President compromised. He chose a Brookings-Institution-type of man, an expert in administrative procedure, who has dedicated his life to upping standards of public administration: Herbert Emmerich of Chicago, egg-bald, little (5 ft. 3¾! in.), 43, associate director of the Public Administration Clearing House-a quiet, capable, research-minded...