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...battery of interpreters would simultaneously translate every word into the three other languages. Each person in court would get a pair of earphones and a dial with which he could tune in on any desired language. Whenever an interpreter fell behind the proceedings, a yellow light would signal a slowdown. If the interpreter got really snafued, a red light would halt the trial...
...Slowdown Ahead...
...July 1943, C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers complained to the Navy of a production slowdown at Norden's New York plant. Corrigan, Naval production-management boss for both plants, investigated and exonerated Norden. Then, the indictment charged, Corrigan persuaded Norden officials to hire his firm, with which he had supposedly severed all ties when he was commissioned. The fee: $104,000. As a result of Corrigan's recommendations, the Navy took over the Remington plant and turned it over to Norden...
...these reasons, coupled with the fact that Grumman workers are the fourth highest paid in the U.S. aircraft industry, and are ruggedly individualistic Long Island clamdiggers, chicken farmers, etc., no union is making any serious attempt to organize Grumman. The company has never had a strike or a slowdown. It has handled the explosive race problem just as smoothly, now has some 600 Negroes in all types of jobs. Worker morale is so good that Grumman can always strain production in emergencies. When the Navy lost an unexpected number of planes on Guadalcanal, Swirbul rallied the workers on a weekend...
...Slowdown after Victory. The slowdown punctuated what was still a crashing Allied victory in Italy. Already General Harold R.L.G. Alexander's armies had cut down the German forces by 80,000 to 100,000 dead, wounded and captured. Even last week when the enemy threw in all the mines, road blocks, and mobile artillery he could muster, when he had committed eight and a half of his twelve divisions in Italy, the Allies still made gains...