Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said he, he was born Samuel Ginsberg in the Polish Ukraine, took the name Krivitsky when he became a Communist in 1919. Lighting one cigaret from another, wincing as cameramen exploded flashlight bulbs, he unfolded in five hours of testimony an extraordinary story of the degeneration of a political party that, as he pictured it, had begun as an ardent movement for remaking the world and had turned into the instrument of an imperialist power. He said that Stalin dictated the policies of the U. S. Communist Party and that Russia financed...
...battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts...
...Poland. What kind of life were they going to? The German radio announced they had a German job to perform, that they were to repopulate some of the newly won Polish areas, where the Reich needs "settlers capable of restoring German order." They were to be given property as nearly as possible like that which they left behind. At Gdynia, the port built by the late Polish Government, 14,000 apartments vacated by fleeing Poles awaited them. There the merchant class would presumably be set to work to build up a transformed, Germanized city...
Moreover, in what was once western Poland the Führer would make room for those who wanted land in the Polish Corridor. The hundreds of thousands of Poles in the Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania...
...sooner we stop the war and arrange for the tabling of our respective grievances. . . the better. . . . Our Premier's pledge to Poland was quite explicit. We were to come to her aid 'with all our resources,' which meant that when the first German soldier crossed the Polish frontier the Royal Air Force would bomb Berlin...