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...campaign moved into high gear. The U.S. people, big & small, prominent and nameless, began to make up their minds, choose sides, form organizations, collect funds, hurl epithets...
Eisenhower also began to collect royalties in the air. His ground victories, long aided by air supremacy, now freed the airforce from its long task of dumping heavy loads on occupied territory, including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle...
...Riga, Latvia by its veteran correspondent Donald Day: "MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U.S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT." The Times promptly offered $5,000 for proof that the story was true. The Tribune blustered it out with a full-page ad boasting of its great "news beat," but never offered to collect...
...notice an article in TIME (Aug. 7) concerning the difficulty the Red Cross is having collecting blood. It seems odd to me that the Red Cross is always pleading for blood donations but has never made any attempt to collect any in a city the size of Houston. Can you give any reason for that...
...piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves out in overwork. Publicly union bigwigs deplore the quota; privately, workers rigidly enforce it. Two months ago, eight rubber workers began serving jail sentences in Akron...