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...warned to untangle production difficulties or get out. For Soviet bigwigs had discovered that "technical discipline" was not keeping pace with rising production quotas. Pig iron intended for spring steel turned unaccountably into stiff-rail steel. Of 80,000 files turned out at Voroshilovgrad one month, 33,000 were worthless because of faulty tempering. The whole Gorky Automobile Plant was stopped "for some time" while its chief technician tinkered with new production methods...
...relative naval power. Roosevelt pointed out in particular that the island of Mindanao, part of our Philippines and key point in the defense of the Sulu Sea, has a large Japanese population, and if it were shut off in addition to Singapore, our Oriental holdings would be worthless...
...that gold will have no value in their world of the future. Said he: "The traffic signals are now placed as follows: gold versus labor." But last week a Manhattan lawsuit made it clear that Adolf Hitler was going through his own red lights; for men who thought gold worthless, the Nazis were going to unusual pains to lay their hands...
...fellow-citizens, but it seems to me that we don't need this kind of trash to wake us up to the desirability of living in a democracy. These songs are a downright insult to whatever intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that...
...counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees who had paid from 2,000 to 6,000 marks ($2,400) for Latin-American visas, which proved worthless when presented...