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...there is a special reason for opening up new listening posts around the nation and expanding our coverage of behind-the-scenes U. S. news. That reason is to get a head start on next year's election, to help you know what businessmen and farmers and workingmen everywhere are talking and arguing about as the country swings into a critical Presidential campaign...
Said the Washington Post: "The disturbing fact is that the Government has winked at the waste of manpower in both its own agencies and private industry for so long that its appeals for more work sometimes fail to make a serious impression on workingmen...
...Workingmen's clothes will have fewer frills, pockets, buttons and buckles under a new WPB order. Estimated annual saving: 21 million yards of cloth, 125 million yards of thread, 150 million buttons, 12 million buckles...
Whether "the fleet's in" or "the fleet's awa" (convoys in or out), once-gloomy Glasgow bustles with workingmen. Pubs and musical music halls are jammed to blackout suffocation. Princes Street in Edinburgh is still beautiful, but even more exciting for the lasses now that there are hundreds of Polish and Norwegian fighting men who have adopted Scotland as their second home...
Before rushing off to attend its present meeting in New York City the British representative stopped long enough to add that "although English workingmen do insist on all their desires being given proper attention, they avoid stopping production." The reason, he said, was simple...