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Ahead of Schedule on Nayy Contract, Watson Tells Highlands Croup• Emphasizing that “well win the war,” Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp., told more than 250 persons attending the Endlcott Highlands Home Owners* association dinner at IBM Homestead last night, that IBM “Is two and one-haU months ahead of schedule on its nary contract** Officer^ of the association and of the Endlcott Highlands Development Corp. wereamong: the''speakers. An enter--tainrnent •program was presented under direction of the associa-tion'f\$nttrtalnraent cpmmi.tteet“It takes three qualities to make a good community, -Juv Watson declared.* “First, the family; second -the home and third, friends. We have these three qualities here and that is why we have a fine community.”Mr. Watson, declaring that “by the end of the year the United States will startle the rest of the world with its war production” said that by next September “Henry Ford will turn out a bomber every two hours and in a year he will produce more than the entire world has now.”“I worked 20 years to avoid war,” he added, “but we must love peace to such an extent that we will fight for it. Although a democracy is never prepared when war comes, it has the combined thinking of everyone instead of one man—a dictator. That is what makes us so strong.“What of IBM after the war? It will be better prepared after the war to return to normal production, but our first job now is to win the war.“I have confidence in the future. War production causes shortages today which will open new markets after the war is won. IBM laboratories have more things in the making today for release after the war than anytime in the history of the com-^ Gurdon Bcgeal, president of the association, who presided, thanked Mr. Watson for the beenfits of the organization. Other officers presented were Donald Doster, first vice president; Fred E. Hapner, second vice president; Edward Smith, —Turn to P»flt Two—Policies on 1 War Effort• New York (INS) ^ Wendell Willkie indicated today that he may dash to Chicago and seek to have the Republican National committee adopt his resolution embodying a foreign policy for the GOP to pursue in the future.Transcontinental-Western Airways revealed that the 1940 Republican presidential nominee had booked passage for Chicago on the plane leaving New York at I p. m.• Chicago (INS)—United In a demand for even more aggressive prosecution of the war, members of the Republican National committee met in Chicago today to formulate a statement of the party’s stand for reorganization of the war effort.All called for a “fight-to-the-finish” war, but that of Wendell L. WHlkie, Republican standard bqarer in the 1940 election was expected by many to provoke a fignt because of its commitments for the peace after war and its proposal for international arrangements to prevent recurrence of conflict.Other resolutions were drafted by Sen. Robert A. -Taft -of-0hio. a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1940, and Sen. C. Wayland Brooks of Illinois, an outspoken isolationist prior to Pearl Harbor.Resolutions by Willkie and Sen. Robert Taft (0.)5 while agreeing on many points, including all-out
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Endicott Daily Bulletin
Endicott, New York, US
Mon, Apr 20, 1942
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