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...Russia WPB Boss Donald Nelson and the Russians fell madly in love. It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair...
Coverage Complete. In Los Angeles, WPB Analyst W. H. Alexander headed a new agency whose announced intention was: "To cover the needs of the average American from birth to death, beginning with the supply of diapers and safety pins and ending with the distribution of caskets and tombstones...
Overall monthly totals may conceal grave lags in the kind of bombers and fighters the armed forces need most. For window-dressing purposes, any month's total could easily be pushed to 10,000 by concentrating on trainer planes. But the October figures were solid, according to WPB production experts...
Satisfied WPB. Out of the huddle of conferences and the welter of staggering facts leaked one shocker: the Kaiser-Hughes plane, the largest ever built, will carry 700 soldiers fully equipped. Or it could evacuate 550 wounded...
WPBsters were shaken by Howard Hughes's ice-cold confidence. They closely scrutinized all the plans, were assured by Expert Grover Loening, WPB's aviation adviser, that the ship was far in advance of anything he had seen. WPB's eye warmed up. It decided not to cancel the Kaiser-Hughes contract - at least, not immediately. But WPB also made it plain that it intends to keep an eagle eye on the supership, may yet cancel the contract...