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Like the U.S. Government, some U.S. defense plants have overexpanded since Pearl Harbor, are now temporarily a crazy quilt of inefficient use of manpower-too many workmen, too few foremen, long waits, misplanned work, shovel-leaning by workers who have nothing to do. One bad example was turned up last week in Seattle, where for two weeks Reporter Don Magnuson worked in a shipyard building destroyers, found enough loafing and inefficiency for a series of shocker stories for the Seattle Times. Reported Magnuson...
...move the box?" Why, in the name of whatever qualities of leadership it takes to be a foreman, didn't he say: "All right, you bastard, I'm a foreman, but I'm not too big a shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect...
Painter Duchamp, who once entered a shovel in an exhibition with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...
...also admitted that an even more heretical method of drowning an incendiary would work: shovel the bomb quickly into a full pail of water, where it will go out like a match. The Chicago Fire Department has been preaching this method for several months, while officials of the OCD and the Army's Chemical Warfare Service bluntly insisted that the Chicagoans were illadvised...
...defense had lured the Germans on and tempted them to abandon partially the Schlieffen plan. When he cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most sensational defenses of modern times--those of Russia in 1812 and 1941--which did not develop into counter-attacks until the time was ripe...