Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well advanced. In Boden one Friedrich Heinz was found giving "German lessons" to officers and soldiers of the garrison. A Swedish manufacturer exposed a German plan to get detailed drawings of Swedish factories by having manufacturers send them to a German air-raid expert for advice on how to build shelters. German "tourists" swarmed over Sweden, especially around the mining districts. Six "philosophy students" were arrested studying the terrain around the fortress at Boden, strongest in northern Europe. Two German agents were nabbed for espionage at Eskilstuna ("Sheffield of Sweden"), another at the gold-mining town of Boliden. A German...
Then there is the threat from Japan, the traditional bugaboo of the American navy. There are rumors that the Japanese are taking time off from the China incident to build four, eight or even twelve super-battleships, and suggestions that we should do the same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific...
...actor's indecisive acting are diligently at work portraying bearish youth mellowing into crochety old age. Inconclusive in its characterization, the picture meanders shapelessly through the minor crises in the composer's life, in a disjointed course that lacks both interest and conviction. A weak-kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags in a love complication as profoundly touching as Hollywood's grade C productions. Never reaching beyond the suggestive, the picture loses itself in a maze of episodic trivia...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...
...Machinery begins to create employment before it ever produces. Example: to build a $115,000 machine for stamping hub caps required 16,428 man-days. For Ford it does the work of 2,160 men, cuts cost of a hub cap from $2.50 handmade to 12? Ford made. If all such technological improvements were eliminated cost of a Ford would top $17,000, most of Ford's 125,000 workers would have no jobs...