Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked fast: industry's self-appointed House watchdog, bellicose Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would...
...been No. 1 horrible example of industrial overcapacity since 1920. Yet coal last week was hard to get. The reason is political: this week John L. Lewis, back from Florida, began negotiating with the mine operators for a new contract. Question before the operators was whether the Guffey-Vinson Act, which gives them a price compensation for all proved cost increases above 2? a ton, would be renewed by Congress before it expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway, to justify...
...silence business last week spoke - and spoke a surprising mouthful -about the big question of whether labor has a right to strike during the defense program. Loudest wranglers on the subject have been labor-baiting Congressmen, exploding spasmodically with anti-strike proposals. Typical was the bill proposed by Chairman Vinson, of the House Naval Affairs Committee, which would discourage unionism by prohibiting the closed shop in defense plants, clamp a "cooling-off" period on disputes...
...Chairman Vinson spilled the secret after telling the Bureau of Ships that he intended to do so. One morning Rear Admiral Walter Stratton Anderson, director of Naval Intelligence, woke up to find the Navy's precious table printed in an extension of Vinson's remarks in the Congressional Record (whence it was speedily extracted by the press). Put down in one place for all to see, the Navy's summary was probably more complete than any that a foreign agent could compile from the most careful collection of individual contract announcements...
...ships (17 battleships, twelve carriers, 54 cruisers) are being built on the Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that during 1940 the Navy had set down $6,558,068,570 in contracts...