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...enough coal and steel to keep going for another week-unless makers of parts had to stop production before that time for lack of steel, coal, or power. (Birmingham Gas Co. this week notified its industrial customers that if temperatures went down to freezing, it would have to divert their entire supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential...
Meanwhile Arnold Rivkin 2L, a member of the group's National Planning Committee said that "we oppose any attempt of communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...
...less a crime for a Public Bureau or Commission to divert the substance of Peter to buy the vote of Paul than it is for some Kreuger to convert the assets of a publicly held corporation to personal...
...brought labor into line with promises that might be taken word-for-word from the Nuremberg harangues of 1932-33. With the centralization of the National Bank, the government now has a percentage of the credits it needs to carry on the military and naval expansion that will divert the Argentines from the things they will not be able to say, the free newspapers they will not be able to read and the great amounts of consumers' goods they will not be able...
...obvious way to use this water would be to divert it above sea level, north of Lake Tiberias. But this would sacrifice the power which the water would generate if allowed to fall into the deep Jordan rift. Besides, the Dead Sea, cut off from its water supply, would shrink or dry up; Palestine's planners do not want that. They proposed to solve the problem by an engineering stunt impossible anywhere else in the world...