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Chief reason for the September boom was a whirlwind campaign by the motion-picture industry. Hollywood went bond selling as only Hollywood can-with publicity, stunts, and pretty girls. No. 1 bond-seller was Paramount's limpid-eyed Dorothy Lamour, who left her sarong in Hollywood and knocked them dead in street clothes. Dotty got off to an early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit...
Smiling, hustling Henry Doorly had himself demonstrated how. In the World-Herald he put on a whirlwind drive to make all Nebraska scrap-conscious. In full-page advertisements, the newspaper trumpeted the campaign, treated it liberally in its news columns. There were prizes for those bringing in the most scrap; every movie theater in the State had at least one scrap matinee. On public golf courses and tennis courts, scrap paid greens and court fees; there were scrap trap shoots and scrap horseshoe meets. Airplanes made surveys of scrap piles, dropped leaflets to farmers. Worshippers brought scrap to churches, children...
...impose any appreciable tax on the $35,000,000,000 increase in the earnings of labor since 1939. The wind has been sown, and Judge Rosenman has a man-sized job ahead of him if labor and management and the whole war effort are not all to reap the whirlwind...
Stocky, quick-gaited Major General Barton K. Yount, flying up & down the country last week on his whirlwind inspections of Army air schools, had little time to reflect that he had become president of the biggest university in the world. He was too busy examining, asking questions, criticizing, improving, and racing...
Thus Kaiser emerged from his nine-day whirlwind tour of Washington with a signal victory, gained only after bitterest battle with all the it-can't-be-done experts (TIME, Aug. 10). He had to convince Nelson, Nelson's advisers, two Senate committees; he had to beat down the Army & Navy, which still do not see where he can get the materials. But behind him he had the pressure of an enthusiastic public opinion...