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Best measure of the campaign's success were the efforts of the Vaterland and its vassals to neutralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V-stenciled trains in Prague, bored workmen V-painting tenders (see cut). To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria...
Thirty thousand U.S. workmen, employed by the big Lockheed airplane factory at Burbank, Calif., waited in the field beside the plant. In white shirts, bareheaded in the California noonday sun, they watched with the intent, quizzical, unfathomable expressions of U.S. workmen in a crowd. On the platform, Lord Halifax finished his brief speech of thanks to the men for the production of planes for Britain...
That 30,000 U.S. workmen heard Lord Halifax and greeted him with thumbs up and a deafening roar of welcome was astonishing to people who have a doctrinaire view of the U.S. and of U.S. workmen. Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it. But to New Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about...
Wendell Willkie's suggestion that the U.S. should have bases in Northern Ireland and Scotland immediately became big, if brief, news. At his press conference President Roosevelt dodged the inevitable questions. He said he would not be surprised if U.S. workmen and U.S. materials were being employed by the British on at least 50 bases throughout the British Empire. But that did not mean that the bases were for the U.S. Government...
...year ago, Quonset Point was a project, just begun. Before the summer had gone, 260 cottages had been moved to the west (to be used as quarters for petty officers) and clamshells were being dredged out of the bay, making fill for the field. With 11,000 workmen on the job, the field was leveled by winter. While the snow fell, hangars were built, great runways, 500 feet wide, 6,000 feet long, laid out and paved. Last week, except for a few odds & ends of construction, Quonset was complete, even to anchorages for two aircraft carriers, hangars and housings...