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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Victims of Defense | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Moral Vacuum. One advantage of a diary is its informal catching of passing moods, backgrounds, people. Sandwiched among the great disasters in this book are many casual entries about the European civilization which Shirer loved. They are revealing. There is the usual chitchat about El Greco's greens, The Decline of the West and The Magic Mountain, "a tremendous novel." There is a murmuring of the evocative names of storied cities. There is gnashing of teeth, impotent anger, weeping, physical illness at each new Nazi success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Germany | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits. As a moral force to counteract the Nazis' immoral force, it is a mere buzz. Another reason for the swift Nazi successes is made clearer: the Nazis found a moral vacuum, rushed in to fill it with a workable immorality. Europe could not save itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Germany | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Each workman is taught a slightly higher skill right on the job. Thus by easy stages unskilled workmen become semiskilled, semiskilled become skilled-and they produce while they learn. To help him run this system (called upgrading) Dr. Reeves drafted as assistants Socony Vacuum's Industrial Relations Manager Channing R. Dooley and Western Electric's Walter Dietz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fastest-Growing Army | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...company Socony-Vacuum told its stockholders last week that it had slashed its stake in Colombia's famed Barco concession (originally $26,201,415) to $6,501,415. Similar action had already been taken by Barco's co-owner, Texas Corp. Explanation: the $50,000,000 field -ranked as one of the oil industry's greatest engineering feats-was bringing in only 12,000 barrels a day last December, 50% of October 1939, still further below the 50-70,000 barrels expected. Further exploration might bring in more oil, but in the meantime the late Andrew Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Barco | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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