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...They too waited in long lines in railroad stations, were jampacked into coaches, slept where they could find room to curl up. There was this difference, however: for the G.I.s, things would probably get better. (The Army was already experimenting with a plan to have them sleep in eight-hour shifts in Pullmans, thus triple the number of berths.) But for civilians things could only get worse...
News was the main item on the daily (eight-hour) fare. ABSIE broadcast the news in seven languages, and also presented at dictation speed a special program of news for the use of the underground press. ABSIE puffed up its straight news reports with talks by such exiled leaders as King Haakon and Jan Masaryk...
...casual reader may easily miss an important point if ht fails to realize that the Committee was not only considering the problem for nearly three years, but spent the equivalent of many weeks of eight-hour working days in its investigations and deliberations. The assistance of numerous collaborators of wide experience and high standing, and the consultations with many school and college men who came to Cambridge required, of course, a budget for expenses considerably beyond that which one normally expects a faculty committee to spend. It has turned out that the $60,000 appropriated by the Harvard Corporation...
...Match Co., finally found the answer. It looks like an ordinary kitchen match, but it is coated with a chemical (formula: still secret) which sheds water. Diamond is now producing 10,000,000 a day and G.I.s in water-filled foxholes have found them a godsend. Even after an eight-hour soaking, the match lights readily...
...Aachen, first Rhineland city to be freed, the process advanced a stage further. German workers formed themselves into a trade union, denounced Naziism, demanded an eight-hour day and the right to strike...