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...except for the taking of the Mediterranean (which could be done at a stroke by depriving the British Fleet of its Egyptian bases) all this would take time-time to organize and employ greater armies than Germany now has on the south side of the Mediterranean. And time would give the United Nations opportunity to organize new resistance at the southern end of the Red Sea and the head of the Persian Gulf. At those two strategic gateways a fight can still be made, which, if successful, will still keep the Nazis and their allies, the Japanese, from joining hands...
...First essential for a company cafeteria is a well-trained dietitian. ("Very few" plants employ them.) Efficiency experts can determine the amounts of money spent in the cafeteria by each employe who lunches there; the dietitian, through shrewd marketing, can plan well-balanced menus within the price range...
...only things that delayed the bill were working details: whether the women should be part of the Army or separate, whether to limit enrollment, what to do about uniforms, age limits, ranks, pay. The Senate will probably pass the House bill this week, permitting the War Department to employ up to 150,000 "women of excellent character in good physical health, between the ages of 21 and 45 years and citizens of the United States...
...most war plants, women are a novelty. The attitude of plant managers ranges all the way from that of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, which wonders why it did not employ women before, to that of Cadillac in Detroit which keeps its first 25 women workers behind a padlocked door. Says an executive: "You know...
...Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, still disgusted at having been court-thwarted in his attempt to end A.F. of L. racketeering, charged labor with deliberately obstructing the war effort. Organized labor, said he, exploited the farmers, impeded transportation, made cheap mass production of housing impossible, forced businessmen to employ "useless and unnecessary workers...