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...Francisco's little corps of women welders, fresh out of trade school and champing for work, put unchivalrous Local 6 of the Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders & Helpers Union (A.F. of L.) on the spot...
...bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
...Stocky, chubby-faced Communist General Secretary Harry Pollitt, one-time cotton-miller and boiler maker, laid down the Party line. Said he: "Open the Second Front. Increase production. Strengthen the Anglo-Soviet alliance. . . . The trade union official who said 'Let the strike continue was not helping the workers. Strikes in this situation are ... helping the Fascists to build the gallows and dig the sandpits in which they execute the cream of the working class whenever they conquer a country...
Eyes on the Needles. The men who watch the gauges indicating how the U.S. war economy is going scanned their dials anxiously this week. The needle points crept up & up. Like a good head of steam in a boiler, higher wages and prices had been useful for a while -the steam behind the throttle was pretty low when the war boom started. But now the indicators inched toward the danger point...
Would the boiler blow Dick Tracy through the roof? Would Joe Palooka best the Nazis? In Venezuela such questions called urgently for an answer. But the ships from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...