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...main Congressional feeling, beneath all these, was a deep suspicion of Federal controls. If the Administration were given an enormous new package of billions, to be handed out to all processors who behaved nicely, regimentation might become a real thing, instead of a worn-out word...
Last week small, round-faced Joe Trecker predicted that the industry's wartime business will stay at four to five times its peacetime production. His reasons: 1) inadequate, manpower-wasting equipment will be replaced as the capacity to make it is freed from more pressing work; 2) worn-out tools will boom the replacement business; 3) new weapons, new military strategy will call for new tools (e.g., a tank-making tool is no good if you want to make a "bazooka...
Airman Kenney. For this good news the U.S. could give George Kenney and his airmen much credit. Starting with worn-out planes and weary pilots, General Kenney in three months had: 1) all but knocked out what planes the Japs could spare to New Guinea; 2) helped to stop one Jap landing at Milne Bay and knocked out a Jap attempt to reinforce Buna; 3) bombed Jap bases in New Britain and the northern Solomons day after day to help the Marines hold Guadalcanal (see below). For a month George Kenney's pursuit planes had been so free...
With private automobile driving down around 35%, the number of accident claims has fallen 25 or 30%; today's accidents are more serious, as a result of dim-outs, tired defense workers behind the wheels, and worn-out tires and cars. Also, in areas where share-the-ride clubs are active, automobile occupancy has increased from 2.2 persons to 4.8 persons per car,* so more people are involved when accidents do happen. Result is that claims paid are now 25 to 35% bigger than usual...
This harmless charade has a certain honky-tonk charm for which those who liked Damon Runyon's Butch Minds the Baby will be warmly prepared. The talk is the patented Runyon brand of Times Square Swahili, in which a worn-out race horse is "practically mucilage," and marriage is described as "one room, two chins, three kids." There is the usual Runyon corps de ballet of ham-hearted grifters, heisters and passers, played by a friendly crowd of veterans from Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity...