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Just how and where the Maritime Commission would go about finding yards and workmen for this 400-ship job, it was not ready to say. For the 260-ship job, the Commission had things under control: six new shipyards (operated by private contractors) are being built and two other yards expanded. To its own rapid specifications, 51 ways are being built, last week were 45% complete-all within two months. Already some $38,750,000 in shipbuilding contracts have been let, and the first of the ugly ducklings is expected to be ready for service by early...
...Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come prisoners, the insane, the Jews. Ration cards giving the owner right to more food are used to give workmen incentives to seek promotion, to increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly...
...coolies pulled stone rollers that weighed seven to eight tons apiece. The first of three layers of stone had been put down for a foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat, an expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building...
Last week Ordnance dedicated with due fuss & feathers the first of its three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson, Major General Charles Macon Wesson. Earlier, visitors and workmen had strolled through Radford's 4,400 scarred acres, inspected its 639 small and scattered buildings, seen demonstrations of escape chutes (see cut) for quick slides to safety when fire and powder get together...
Together these faces, 60 ft. high, were the largest piece of sculpture ever wrought in the Christian Era. For 14 years a crew of workmen, with dynamite, steam shovels and compressed-air drills, had patiently chipped their features into the mountain's rocky face, removing 400,000 tons of granite in the process. Against them, even the driving weather of the Northwestern winter battled slowly. It would take 108 million years before wind, rain, freezes and thaws could wear them back into the stone mountain from which they had emerged...