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...write-offs, 60% is already in place, said Fowler; by the end of next year, 90% will be completed. The Administration has the choice of using this extra production reserve for greater arms output or for civilian production. Fowler proved his point with an admission which was, for a bureaucrat, amazing. If the new production is not used for defense, said he, all controls on such once short items as copper, steel and aluminum can be removed by early next year...
After his inauguration last month, Governor Aloé quickly found his tongue in public. Vociferously he cried that he will not tolerate any sub-bureaucrat "who does not think as the governor thinks." He especially concentrated his conformist zeal on the brainwashing of schoolchildren...
...Figures. Old enough to have fought as a major in the revolution, Ruiz Cortines has made a lifelong career as a bureaucrat. Back in 1914 he worked as a paymaster; one of the charges leveled at him during the recent election campaign was that he had been on the yanqui payroll during the occupation of Veracruz that year by U.S. armed forces. Ruiz Cortines, who refuted the charges, still wears a clerkish air, and takes a bureaucrat's professional pleasure in going through a good statistical report...
...later, Napoleon made Bertrand grand marshal of the imperial palace, and in this capacity the old soldier followed his master into exile at St. Helena. When Bertrand died, in 1844, he bequeathed his notebooks of the exile to his daughter Hortense, who in turn entrusted them to a French bureaucrat with orders to publish them 25 years after her death. All in all, it was not until 1946 that the grand marshal's strongbox was finally opened, and his St. Helena papers were laid before the historians...
Small Voice. In Melbourne, Australia, the State Electricity Commission received a check of ?2 IDS. ($7), presumably from a bureaucrat, with the note: "Conscience money-loafing...