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...Party Central Committee, because "some people are still strongly influenced by religion, and believe that Socialism will come from Heaven. This is erroneous." From the sovietized Bergmann-Borsig engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland, official organ of the German Communist Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep...
...Substandard. In Higashi Village, Japan, the women's youth corps put 50 youths through a husband qualification test which included a marathon run, a rice-bag-carrying race, chinning the bar and plowing, flunked...
Raymond Beecroft, general manager of the Warren Press, said he objected to material "which seemed to be substandard as far as morals are concerned" in the March issue, the first the company has handled. The firm does mainly religious work for the Adventist Christian Denomination with some outside commercial work...
Stocky, muscular college students are likely to succeed in engineering; portly young men with substandard muscles are better off in the law. These are conclusions of Frederick L. Stagg, Harvard research fellow in physical anthropology, who specializes in human bodies and their effects on their tenants...
...movies go, New York is definitely having a substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...