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...months after V-E day, WPB hopes that there will be enough materials and manpower available so that the gen eral run of industries can reconvert as they please, let supply and demand govern output...
...future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25 years illiteracy (reduced from approximately 90% to 51% since the U.S. took possession in 1899) could be eliminated. Water and land transportation would be socialized, and large retail cooperatives established...
...Cologne was what M.G. had been training for. In Italy, no large manufacturing centers had yet been liberated. In Germany, the dense population centers, except Cologne, lay beyond the Rhine. M.G.'s success or failure in Cologne would set the pattern for the control commissions which will govern Germany after its armies are beaten...
...most astonishing thing that came out of our talks with these Germans is their lack of nationalism. They don't want to govern themselves, and in a dozen different ways they expressed the same idea: they regard Germany's future as an Allied problem. One after another they expressed the hope that they will be treated as some sort of American colony. Instead of resisting the thought of being ruled, they welcome it with almost childlike relief...
Despite their humble origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control...