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...director of the duel, Army Fencing Master Colonel Aniceto Rodrigues, punctiliously following the Code Duello, in vited the two principals to a reconciliation. Both refused. The director stepped back from the line of combat, clapped his hands...
...work among both U.S. and Japanese prisoners. "This means that the Japanese intend to abide by ... the Geneva Convention," said Mr. Strong, "that within the limits of war everything possible will be done to make the lot of American prisoners of war more comfortable." Observers agree that the Geneva code has improved the lot of World War II prisoners on all sides of the lines over that of prisoners in World...
...basic facts to find their proper subcontracting niche: 1) the materials to be handled, 2) the type of machines required, 3) the number of machine-hours per job, 4) the operation expected of the machine, 5) the weight of the part to be machined. If there were an alphabetical code to express these facts, any man with a machine could look up its war uses like a number in the phone book...
...Once the code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...
...candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead of course dropped rapidly, which...