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...miss just out of high school carefully, quickly smoothes the edges of brass propeller-fittings. Three minutes are allotted to each fitting. In Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching...
House crews will have the advantage of excellent coaching this summer, as Varsity coach, Tom Bolles, and Freshman coach, Harvey Love, are going to devote their talents to the House eights. Inexperienced upperclassmen will be able to start from scratch in the "Leviathan" with the new Freshmen instead of going right into one of the slender shells. There is a chance that the Union Boat Club will organize a summer regatta in which the House crews will participate...
...enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
...supreme example of combined nationalism and collectivism is Naziism. "To deny that this system works," says Author de Sales, "would be foolish. It has in fact worked so well that it has enabled Hitler -starting from scratch-to build up in six or seven years a collectivist society relatively so efficient that none of the other systems opposed to it, although possessing infinitely larger resources, has been able to compete with it as yet." As a result, the question for the democratic nations is: Will they be able to develop an economic society as efficient as the Nazi collectivist...
...consent decree, calling for a more democratic form of organization; the Supreme Court upheld the power of the States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless...