(3 of 14)
1. 1/5
2.⅓
3. ½
4. ⅔
5.¾
17. But even this super-budget was upped within a month when Congress made the biggest appropriation of all time, giving the Navy:
1. $9 billion.
2. $31 billion.
3. $21 ½ billion.
4. $39 ½ billion.
5. $26 ½ billion.
18. Finally, after long ignoring public demand for one responsible production head, the President appointed Donald Nelson to the job and gave him:
1. Most of Baruch's World War I powers.
2. The combined powers of OPM and OPA—and no more.
3. The power and title of Lieutenant General.
4. Carte blanche.
5. More power than Baruch ever had.
19. OPM was abolished and in one month Nelson did all but one of the following:
1. Stopped all auto production.
2. Gave Ernest Kanzler the job of converting auto plants to defense work.
3. Cleared $11 billion worth of defense contracts.
4. Put heavy penalties on dishonesty and profiteering in defense work.
5. Demanded day to day reports on the output of each defense plant.
20. Tires and autos were rationed first—and then sugar was rationed, which was growing scarce, but not because of:
1. Use in munitions making.
2. Failure of American beet sugar crops.
3. Lend-Lease shipments to England and Russia.
4. Hoarding.
5. Decrease in shipments from Hawaii and Philippines.
21. The President signed the Price Control Bill but made the inflationary farm-price provisions inserted by Congress ineffective when he:
1. Said Government-held surpluses could be used by all Government departments.
2. Vetoed them.
3. Concluded a new import agreement with Canada.
4. Ordered Price Boss Henderson to ignore them.
5. Suspended all farm subsidies.
22. The House voted $100,000,000 to the Office of Civilian Defense with the proviso that:
1. Eleanor Roosevelt resign as Assistant Director.
2. None of it be spent on fan dancers.
3. Baseball Czar Landis should not be made Director.
4. LaGuardia choose between his two big jobs.
5. It give up plans to make Dumbo a modern Yankee Doodle.
23. And even though the budget called for $7,500,000,000 for all Lend-Lease purposes, Congress specifically allocated to China:
1. 2,000 tons of American rubber in Sydney.
2. 12 American gunboats on Chinese rivers.
3. $500,000,000 for currency stabilization.
4. 5,000 tons of wheat to make up for rice failures.
5. 200 Flying Fortresses with pilots.
LABOR
24. All but one of these things were true of last fall's biggest labor-industry fight over the union shop in captive coal mines:
1. Lewis demanded it; steelmen said no.
2. The Mediation Board refused to recommend it.
3. The President warned he would never force it on anyone.
4. The whole UMW struck for 10 days to get it.
5. Roosevelt's Arbitration Board ordered it.
25. Mad at strikes, strikers, and John L. Lewis:
1. Four members of the NDMB resigned in protest.
2. C.I.O. President Philip Murray attacked Lewis' attitude on defense.
3. A Senate Committee recommended