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...knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York...
...special legal provisions, safety precautions (epileptics should not operate dangerous machines, fat people Should not Climb ladders). Consolidated Aircraft's 700 handi capped workers, for example, have the best attendance record in the plant. One small company has had such success with handicapped workers that they now com prise the majority of the employes : about 75 of the 85 workers at Minneapolis' C. & F. Tool Co. are handicapped...
...continent behind a flexible system of interrelated land, air and sea defenses. Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
...handicapped not only by the same kind of machine in Whitehall as existed in the last war, but with an even greater force apparently with constitutional power. . . . Until the staff system is thoroughly overhauled, we shall always be too late in everything we undertake. . . . Secret and swift decision, sur prise and speedy action are essentials of success in the present war. This has been brilliantly illustrated in our campaigns in Africa, but you will not get it while you are dependent for decision and action on the cumbrous machinery of Whitehall. . . . One reason suggested for my dismissal was that...
...bookstore is a business enter prise, privately owned and not connected with any organization, nor is its purpose to further any cause. We suply progressive material applying to labor and social problems," they stated...