Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on a site next to Chicago's Municipal Airport, workmen broke ground for the new Johnson & Johnson assembly plant. Under terms of its Army contract, the company will: 1) equip its factory to turn out 100,000 masks a month (300,000 on a three-shift, 24-hour basis); 2) make 10,000 masks during 1940; 3) at year's end turn over equipment and gas masks to the Army for the sum of $341,714. By Aug. 1 Johnson & Johnson expected the first masks to come rolling off the assembly line...
LOVE IN THE SUN-Leo Walmsley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A girl named Dain, and "I," a young man, unmarried, without money, in love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough...
...vivid fact stood out when the personnel of Economist Göring's Council was announced last week: Five of twelve members were long-standing civil service experts who are relative newcomers to the Nazi Party. Inference of the shift of authority was that under the stress of the Allied blockade, and in the face of disappointment over Russia's power to help, German economy has had to bolster inflationary, promissory, "Socialist" schemes with more oldfashioned, penny-bank economics...
Herr Funk, always known as a Göring henchman, had by this shift given his portly hero more administrative titles and more actual power than any other man in Germany, including Adolf Hitler. Hermann Göring is now President of the General Economic Council, Chief of the National Defense Council, Administrator of the Four-Year Plan, Air Minister, Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Prime Minister of Prussia, President of the Reichstag, Reich Hunting Master, Reich Fishing Master. Walther Funk retained his posts as Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, but his jurisdictions were cut, his staff reduced...
Unfortunately, not much can be said for the remainder of the Greenwood team, particularly in the free-style departments. Accordingly, Coach Ulen is expected to shift his men around considerably. He will try to enter as many of the squad's inexperienced men as possible, and will test his veterans in events to which they have not been accustomed...