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...last week Hermann Göring stood on the platform of the timbered hall in Berlin's Haus der Flieger (Fliers' Club) and said: "Everywhere in the Reich, armament factories are undisturbed. Here & there an occasional bomb has temporarily caused interruptions but not a single plant, not a single factory of importance, has been destroyed...
...Therefore, the immediate need is a swift and driving increase in our armament production. ... I am not satisfied with the progress thus far made. . . . None of us will be satisfied until the job is done...
...excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous na tional defense scheme which Solomon planned and completed in record-breaking time" (I Kings...
Captains F.A. Ritchie and G. Oetinger, Jr of the Army Ordnance District will address the Council's members and all other interested students on "Technical and Economic Problems of Armament Production as Encountered by the Army" in the Junior Common Room at Dunster House...
...American Federation of Labor issued its monthly employment figure: U. S. employment, which from January through August rose only from 43,103,000 to 44,903,000, by the end of October had jumped to 46,063,000. Yet a disconcerting number of the U. S.'s armament and capital-goods makers were still working only eight hours a day. A cheering announcement - particularly for the U. S.'s remaining 8,130,000 unemployed - came from Buffalo: Curtiss-Wright and Boeing agreed to put their plans to work in three shifts a day. The National Industrial Conference Board...