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...Allies together already have the essential implements for victory-troops, tanks, aircraft and arms. There is no time to wait until the last button is sewn on the uniform of the last soldier. Sometimes you have to fight, not under the conditions that are desired, but under the conditions that are unavoidable. In such a case you quickly have to change your plans and adapt yourselves to new circumstances...
...Button Sorters...
...solution to the problem of the thousands of people crying "Give us jobs to do" (TIME, March 9), the "Button Sorters" job might be put back into operation...
Quiz. In Albany, N.Y., the Rev. Button S. Peterson opened a session of the State Assembly by reading a seven-line invocation, later asked more than a dozen members if they knew what it was. None of them recognized it: the last verse of America...
Many of the world's smartest manufacturing brains are concentrated in Detroit; so is much of the world's smartest machinery. Many a machine is no good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride...