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...your Feb. 4 issue you inform a surprised world that since V-E day to the end of 1945, 32,000,000 man hours and $257,000,000 in wages were lost in strikes. My slide rule tells me that the strikers must have been making $8.03 an hour at that rate. . . . H. KING HEDINGER New York City
What made Germany tick through six years of war despite skimpy resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them...
...repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...writing. . . . The reportorial and editorial aspects of radio [on V-E day] were superb. But when an acknowledged master of the art ... got to work on the same stuff, he was dull, windy, opaque, pretentious, and in the end, false...
...source of information. To the Russians he was increasingly a symbol of military success-as the war drew to its close, their habitual reserve melted. Soviet officials went to movies at Spasso House. At official parties Harriman was almost lionized by high officers of the U.S.S.R. For hours on V-E day, crowds of Moscow citizens demonstrated outside his window...