Word: slowdown
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...Student demonstrators tried to confiscate all hats and neckties-symbols of Western domination-worn by Indians and Europeans in Bombay. Then they seized topees, burned them merrily in street-corner bonfires. This week, with rioting still sporadic, the pressure of an Indian National Congress party boycott and a general slowdown of the war effort faced the British...
Internally the state of war gives Mexico the opportunity to clean out Axis fifth columny, both political and financial. It also gives President Avila Camacho new powers to tackle the serious economic disruptions brought about by the closing of world export markets and the slowdown on imports...
Meanwhile, and perhaps most important of all, the Petain Government approved full economic collaboration with Germany. French production of planes, tanks, artillery and munitions for Germany has increased, despite sabotage by slowdown and sometimes by violence. France has shipped to Germany 14,000 head of cattle a month, huge quantities of cheese, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat, fruit, champagne and wine reserves. Some 100,000 French skilled workers have been moved to Germany...
...Frenchmen kept rebelling. Besides slowdown sabotage, it was estimated last fortnight that since the fall of France 74 steel foundries had been violently sabotaged, 18,000 trucks loaded with war materials destroyed, 30 ammunition dumps blown up and 184 trains derailed. Last week another German troop train was derailed, killing 44. Two grenades wrapped in newspapers were hurled into the Nazis' Paris headquarters. In a Rennes theater this week, when Jacques Doriot, rabid collaborationist and good Laval friend, got up to address a meeting, someone in the balcony threw a bomb which exploded harmlessly in the orchestra...
...Bottlenecks. As the program expanded, bottlenecks developed. One was in supervisory labor (foremen). One reason for slowdown rumors was the time lost because green men had to stand around waiting instruction. Many skilled workers had to be used as teachers. In actual operations one supervisor had to handle as many as 10 to 15 green hands...