Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, the Japanese soldier is as tangled as the wires behind a telephone switchboard. From birth he has been taught the glory of dying for the Emperor. He knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan...
Last week the conferees, accepting the Army and Navy suggestions, sent to private schools throughout the land recommendations for a wartime curriculum including more training in mathematics, geography, modern history, radio and telephone, electricity, internal-combustion engines, map making, etc. They also recommended more manual labor (like road building and farming) and less varsity athletics, substituting tough intramural sports for everybody...
...with homely detail. It shows the customary travail of a boy growing up; the teacher's wisdom grooving his bright young talents; her dubious reward in seeing him (John Shepperd), long after, become a U.S. Presidential candidate. There is also the teacher's furtive romance with the manual training teacher (John Payne), and their painful discovery of how sadistically the community minds their well-meant morals...
Most amused publisher was Fawcett Publications. Said its house organ: "We suggest that Wiegers prepare for his next little game of I-spy by learning how to handle mechanical gadgets. Mechanix Illustrated, 10 cents at all newsstands, or Handy Man's Home Manual, 50 cents (adv.), might be helpful...
...professors." In 1930 it is estimated that the Jews' share of the German income and aggregate wealth "was four times that of the Jewish population ratio. . . . Today there are no Jewish business enterprises in Germany, no Jewish lawyers, craftsmen, actors or musicians. . . . With the exception of the manual labor which they perform upon a virtually slave basis, the Jews have been completely eliminated from the economic life of greater Germany...