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Boots and Massage. In contrast to U.S forces, the British have no trench-foot problem, even though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...
...Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder. Then, for almost two years, the plant stood idle; and finally, last February, workmen began to dismantle its machinery...
...Something of this was immediately reflected in the first approach to study of the situation in Southern California," the study continues. "Everywhere the need for the best in applied science and technical skill was fully understood, the chief handicap being a shortage of technically competent workmen. And it all points to the advantages of balanced operation--an increased quantity of production, lowered costs of production, and a reduction in extravagant absence records and turnover. This reduction benefits not only individuals but also industry as a whole...
...have worked very hard. We have been a council of workmen and soldiers. ... It has been a pleasure to me and an honor to have so many long and intimate talks with my friend and war comrade Marshal Stalin, and to deal with him on the many difficult questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight...
Naturally, there's no definite proof that the Founder ever did brush up against it, but the facts indicate that he probably did. The wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...