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...could piously claim that it had not violated the Little Steel formula. Technically it had not; but as a yardstick for real wages the formula is now mackerel-dead. WLB achieved its politically determined result by adding four and a half hours' work-at overtime pay-to the miners' week, and by allowing travel-time pay, something which it swore only five months ago it could...
...nature of the enemy. Editor Armstrong warned against a sentimental peace. Eventually, he believes, the U.S. will be able to accept its present enemies as partners-but "eventually" is a long way off. In the interim, U.S. citizens can test each peace proposal only by the "realistic" yardstick: Does it increase U.S. security...
...years Nazi Germany worked with every known device to increase the birth rate of the nation. From an alltime low of 14.7 births per 1,000 population in 1932, the yardstick of the people's "birthjoy" climbed to 20.4 in 1939, sagged only immaterially to 18.8 in the first three years of war. Last September Nazi birthrate booster No. 1, rabbity Dr. Joseph Goebbels, was still able to praise the "fiery zeal" of German propagation...
...objective must be a world in which all people are fed in full accordance with the requirements of good health, it will be necessary as a practical measure to concentrate on intermediate goals which can be progressively raised. . . ." The conference made public a minimum dietary standard to provide a yardstick for judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch...
Matter-of-fact Olaf Gerhard Thörnell, Commander in Chief of all Swedish armed forces, has 600,000 men at his command. The standard yardstick allows about half of these as combat divisions, but more could be mobilized in a pinch. Sweden has plenty of small arms, Swedish-made Bofors anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. The army is well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height...