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Some of the methods of Barney Baruch's World War I Industries Board have been adopted to good advantage: wood screw manufacturers have agreed to eliminate 507 of the 885 sizes and types they now make. This will enable them to increase production 25% without adding new machines or workers. McConnell's office also has been working with Army and Navy men in an attempt to eliminate unnecessary use of aluminum (as in battleship trimmings) and other scarce materials in military specifications...
...Psychologists For whom the living soul had bolts and screws Took the blind engines screw by screw apart For 'Readjustment'--not redemption, now--And working in the dark where none can work, With diagrams of the soul's machinery, Taught the new bogus teachers how to make Their automatic robots of mankind . . . Ready to click their heels at the right lie, And march, to Wagner's music, anywhere...
Said Washington quidnuncs: "If Roosevelt can't screw up enough courage to drop Budd now, he'll never be able to fire anyone...
...sphere, the novel is a masterpiece. It is as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, though still more specialized. Its story is about life as Carson McCullers sees fit to create it in a Southern Army camp, and is almost desperately psychomedical. Within its 183 pages a child is born (some of whose fingers are grown together), an Army captain suffers from bisexual impotence, a half-witted private rides nude in the woods, a stallion is tortured, a murder is done, a heartbroken wife cuts off her nipples with garden shears...
...Buffalo, Barcalo Manufacturing Co. made and marketed a combination screw driver, screw cap wrench, punch opener, hammer, bottle opener, cutting edge and slot-to-make-a-can-pouring...