Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting today at left end is Bill Fitz, at left tackle Kiever, t left guard Mroz, at center Grady of Loos, at right guard I'owell, at right tackle Middendorf, at right end Bresnahan, and Harrison, Farrell, Wilson, and Grant in the backfield...
...past decade of the "thirties, the American people were forced by depression to solve common problems through common action, to see the social consequences of individual actions and to become mindful of the forgotten man, the little fellow, In each era, successively culminating in the new Freedom of Wilson and the New Deal of Roosevelt-there was an optimistic, morally charged striving for social ends by individuals...
Each of these eras of idealism was followed by a World War in which the idealistic striving for common ends reached new highs. The United States fought World War l, in theory at least, to save the world for Wilson democracy; it fought World War 11 as a matter o self-preservation of its democracy against a rising authoritarianism. After World War I, however, this notion returned to a complacent normalcy; materialism succeeded an idealism that had spent its energy in the right in this country reflects, in great measure, the fact that another unequalled war effort has once more...
...Wilson Wyatt's National Housing Administration now decided that this 83-acre plant would be ideal for the manufacture of prefabricated houses, which were doing badly. (Production of 3,500 a month is only one-sixth of estimates.) Tucker Corp., said NHA, would have to move out so the plant could be turned over to Lustron Corp., an offshoot of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Corp...
When NHA asked RFC to lend Lustron $32 million, RFC also balked. RFC said that Lustron was putting up too little of its own cash. Promptly Wilson Wyatt twirled his blackjack again. He threatened to lay into RFC with another "directive...