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...Patchwork. Engines, weapons, wealth and mass production were not the only things that King, Ford and Olds created. They created the social problems which for two decades have harassed the city. Behind the present good wages of the auto industry lies a history of some of the worst violence in U.S. labor. Today, Detroit's labor is comparatively peaceful, casually shifting jobs with the shifts in Detroit's production pattern, getting over the slumps with the help of unemployment-compensation checks...
Today, the Detroit of Henry Ford is a great patchwork of races and nationalities-Hungarians, Poles, Greeks, Negroes, Chinese. To this polyglot gathering, in World War II, were added workers from Kentucky and Tennessee, dubbed "hillbillies" by their neighbors. Oldtime Detroiters blame them for some of the ugly race tension which erupted once and might again. Restive and dynamic, Detroit has all the problems of a city which, in a half-century, has increased sixfold...
...integrating Western Europe . . . appear staggering to those who live by ritual. But great majorities in Europe . . . deserve, at the very least, a fair chance to work together . . . Europe cannot attain the towering material stature possible to its peoples' skills and spirit so long as it is divided by patchwork territorial fences. They foster localized, instead of common, interest...
...senior officials are Iranians, and most of these are administrative rather than technical men. The Iranians may, at the most, be able to keep the existing wells going, but they do not have the technical knowledge to open new ones; they would be able to maintain only patchwork efficiency at the Abadan refinery, which includes an intricate catalytic cracking plant set up for the British by U.S. engineers. Nor does Teheran have the worldwide sales organization and millions of tons of tankers required to market the product...
...eloquent, sometimes florid, always earnest, espousal of U.S. internationalism; he made them possible. At a time when no Democrat stepped forward to take leadership of the nation's foreign-policy program, Vandenberg assumed the burden. He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation. He was talked about for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, but would do nothing whatever to further his own chances. Sitting at night in his Wardman Park Hotel suite, he pecked out on his old typewriter the speeches that determined the course of many a foreign...