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...make safe the places where the men work. Most of the miners live on company property in little, dirty towns and have contact with the outside world only through their union; they have no essential security in job or home. Under present conditions, even the best mines will shorten a man's life by almost two decades...
What was the "progressive movement"? Was it progressive to seek to shorten bread and soup lines by paying for the raising of less wheat, corn, sugar, and pigs? Was it progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs...
...clear that on many occasions during the war Conant the chemist and "field agent" was called upon for decisions far removed from the test-tube and University classroom. His firm contention in 1942 that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still...
Next day Hoyt began tinkering with the Post's horrendous, circus-poster typography, told his editors to shorten the wordy leads on news stories, stop "jumping" stories from Page One. He quickly won the women. First he abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then he ordered women's lounges installed at once. He gave backshop employes a $3-a-week raise; the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, caught flatfooted, had to follow suit. Last week Hoyt sent a legman legging it on a 13-state assignment to retrieve its famed regional coverage...
Fleet Admiral King used his final report on his four-year stewardship* to labor his contention that unity of command in Washington would have done nothing to shorten...