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Christina (second name withheld because her parents are still in Poland) was a clerk in a state food monopoly. Her story: "If you are late for work three times in a month, they take away half your pay. A girl's average salary is 350 zloty ($90) a month. But a plain dress costs 600 zloty, so pay cuts are tough . . . If you refuse to work overtime, they call you a saboteur and a political enemy. Sometimes they fire you. If you get fired this way twice, you are sent to a labor camp. This is what Polish girls...
Golden Cord. He began his campaign to make his own aluminum because, he said, the Big Three withheld supplies to independent fabricators. First of all, he would need cheap electric power. It was scarce, but Harvey seemed to have no trouble finding it. He persuaded the Interior Department's Bonneville Power Administration to assign him 111,500 kilowatts from the new Hungry Horse Dam being built near Kalispell, Mont. To use the power, Harvey needed electric rectifiers. From War Surplus Boss Jess Larson, Harvey bought enough for a complete "pot-line" (i.e., enough to make 35 million...
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Listeners who tuned in late on the midnight Moscow radio news got a shock-the Russian broadcaster was saying: ". . . Truth can only be arrived at if there is freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] Camp Stoneman, Calif...