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...till January 1948, said he, could G.M. and the other car makers hope to hit the rate of 6,000,000 cars a year they had expected to reach late this year. (Auto production this week was 76,106 cars, a rate of 3,900,000 a year.) One prime reason: worker efficiency is way down. In 1941 G.M., with 265,000 workers, turned out 55,000 cars a week; now, with 20% more workers, it is making only 25,460. Said Wilson: worker efficiency* was only 80% of its prewar level because of inexperience and workers who 1) feel...
...interest after the other counts itself in; the great Congressional Library crowns the hill beside the Capitol, the Departments and Institutes cover their acres and square their shoulders, the Obelisk to the memory of Washington climbs still higher; but something is absent more even than these masses are present-till it at last occurs to you that the existence of a religious faith on the part of the people is not even remotely suggested...
...long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were...
...less than eight Government agencies got busy trying to help the overloaded railroads with priorities for materials for new cars, new steps to speed up "turnarounds" of cars, etc. But enough new cars would be long in coming. ODT's Johnson predicted that the pinch would last till spring...
Sighed the Ukraine's Dmitry Manuilsky (himself no mean verbal cunctator): "If we go on this way, the peace conference will last till...