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...fellow who tried to get friendly with one of our workmen and buy an exam paper from him. But we discovered the leak within an hour, and within the next he was packed and leaving for home. "That," Pottinger added, "happened fifteen years ago, and since then no one has had the nerve to try it again...
...usually are straightened out later." Meantime, Turkish spies reported that Russia, at whom Allied power in the Near East points most directly, was not so tranquil. Soviet engineers, advised by Germany's great fort-builder, Dr. Fritz Todt, are rushing fortifications in the Caucasus, using several hundred thousand workmen, to defend Russia's (and Germany's) oil supply. Already Russia has mined the approaches to all her big Black Sea ports...
Backbone of Don Tinto's Popular Front is the Radical Party of conservative-minded Senator Florencio Duran. No more radical than Daladier's Radical Socialists in France, Duran's Party is a conglomeration of big & little businessmen, professionals and skilled workmen. They represent the aspirations of the Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto...
...Russian workmen were working fast to move one rail 3½ inches outward on each of nine roadbeds across the east of old Poland, to make them wide enough for Russian rolling stock bringing supplies to Germany. (Standard gauge was kept on the line from Przemysl through Lwów down to Cernauti, Rumania, over which oil reaches Germany, now under German guard...
Last week, on a site next to Chicago's Municipal Airport, workmen broke ground for the new Johnson & Johnson assembly plant. Under terms of its Army contract, the company will: 1) equip its factory to turn out 100,000 masks a month (300,000 on a three-shift, 24-hour basis); 2) make 10,000 masks during 1940; 3) at year's end turn over equipment and gas masks to the Army for the sum of $341,714. By Aug. 1 Johnson & Johnson expected the first masks to come rolling off the assembly line...