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...white-&-blue thrills ran up & down backs of Congressmen when Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, told this fact to his colleagues. He was just explaining how unconquerably large the U.S. Navy will be when 1,900,000 tons of warships (see p. 45) provided in a bill which last week unanimously passed the House, have been completed...
Spurred by public apprehension, the House Naval Affairs Committee behind closed doors heard Navy's side of the situation from naval bigwigs, afterward announced: "Chairman Vinson and the Naval Committee feel that they may properly communicate to the country a feeling of confidence in the Navy and in its conduct of anti-submarine warfare. . . . Unfortunately the only types in which [the shipbuilding program] is not well ahead of schedule are those most needed in combatting submarines. ... It does not pay to be unduly optimistic. However . . . in the past few weeks the submarine has largely withdrawn from our eastern seaboard...
...Senate, Tom Connally of Texas quietly withdrew his plant-seizure, anti-strike bill, but in the Naval Affairs Committee of the House there was a final lashing around before the Vinson bill (to wipe out overtime wages for hours under 48 a week, freeze existing labor-management relations, limit war profits) was tabled by a hairline 13-12 vote. The debate was bound to go on, but possibility of immediate action...
Stockholders grew curious, too. One of them sued the directors and officers of Brewster, charging that the Mirandas dominated Brewster and got "excessive commissions." Congressman Engel asked the Vinson Naval Affairs Committee to investigate. But the Navy, also impatient, moved in first...
...Jack & Heinz of Cleveland, whose gaudy profits and bonus payments were recently put on exhibition by the Vinson committee, promised a cut of $9,250,000 on 1942 business, coughed up $600,000 cash...