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Lord Beaverbrook, the Napoleonic little publisher whom Prime Minister Churchill put in charge of airplane production and procurement, announced that since May 11, with workmen functioning in twelve-hour shifts seven days' a week, British warplanes were coming out 62% faster than before, that all equipment losses of the Flanders campaign were replaced, that his buyers were snapping up every bit of U. S. product available. Shortage' of air-power kept Allied expenditure of men & ships carefully calculated...
Third, "there are undoubtedly cases where the poor management of relief projects, the bad use of skills, political maneuvering etc., have had the reverse effect of that intended, and to have led to the deterioration of workmen on relief." Fourth, "in a state like Massachusetts, where a declining industrial tendency was observed early in the twenties, there is very little hope of reabsorbing the unemployed, even if they were considered desirable workers and industry wished to hire them...
...true, then let it be soon. Every day means the loss of mere precious blood. It is too late already for the women killed in the air raid today. Too late, for the children killed on their way to school, too late for the workmen killed today at their benches. For Paris was bombed...
Before dawn one morning last week, workmen swarmed through the 1,216 acres of the biggest show on earth. Over subway entrances and roadway gates, on the Perisphere, around the Great White Way, on scores and scores of walls agleam with 100 tons of new paint, huge signs appeared: HELLO, FOLKS! The World's Fair of 1940 in New York (official abbreviation: Forty Fair) was ready to open...
...effect, half the shirts were gone. Equally astounding have been some of his results in other lines. One morning last summer he briefly mentioned that the drinking water had a peculiar taste. By 4:30 the same afternoon the Hollywood dam reservoir had been partially drained and workmen were ready to clean it. Wiley frankly tells his adoring audience he won't answer their fan letters (about 2,500 a month), bases his success on two rules: 1) accept no "catchem and killem projects"; 2) always tell the girls the truth...