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...greedy. Commented PAB Chairman Maurice Karker: high productiveness of labor, fine supervision, improved flow of raw materials, inexperience with costs and materials make many a company an unwitting profiteer. Only 10% objected to PAB's excisions. In some cases companies had bid high to protect them selves from unknown costs on unfamiliar products. In many cases the growing volume of orders and the experience gained in manufacture enabled companies to make huge unforeseen savings. In a few cases the contract price was figured on the costs of manufacturing a given weapon in Federal arsenals, and the companies had found...
...lack of interest in psychical research. But she has submitted her peculiar powers to tests by investigators in that field. Said the late Dr.Walter Franklin Prince, of the American Society for Psychical Research: "Her honesty and general character are beyond doubt. . . . That she is able to state facts provably unknown to her to a degree beyond the limits of chance has been absolutely proved to me. Here is a remarkable and perplexing case...
...mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean Colgate becomes Mrs. Lt. (ig) Charles Stafford, and at our, Anchors Aweigh Soiree the night before we shove off. So its Hedzup! and eyexs front toward ports now unknown...
...making dissolution of the Comintern (see col. 2). Other speculation: the letter had to do with: 1) a meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek (before the U.S. Congress Winston Churchill "earnestly" hoped for such a meeting); or 2) Soviet Union war and postwar aims, still an unknown factor; or 3) Russo-Vatican relations; or 4) Russo-Polish differences; or 5) all four...
...Then, with traditional Russian courtesy, he inquired about his visitor's health (ailing Joe Davies had brought to Russia a supply of dehydrated food and an intestinal specialist). The informal chat touched on Joe Davies' stop-off at Stalingrad to lay a wreath on the unknown Russian soldiers' grave. Remarked Stalin quickly: Did Mr. Davies see the graves of 96,000 Germans near...