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...possible causes of the blast, the fourth explosion in U. S. powder works within five weeks,* employes and officials guessed at spontaneous combustion or some fault with the compressor in the recovery building. But, mindful of disasters in U. S. munitions factories during World War I, agents of FBI, the Army and Navy, dug through the Hercules ruins looking for evidences of sabotage...
Says realistic Historian Burckhardt: "Like all the great creative forces in history, Richelieu was a great destroyer. He tore down as much as he built up, yet it was not his fault, but that of his successors, that they did not grasp the profound lesson of his work, the lesson that no wall must be removed unless another and better one is erected...
...planes, got between 350 and 400 from the U. S. The 1,800 figure is almost exactly twice as many as British factories turned out in May, the month Lord Beaverbrook took charge. Even if Britain goes down this fall, it will not be Lord Beaverbrook's fault. If she holds out, it will be his triumph. This war is a war of machines. It will be won on the assembly line...
...Whose Fault? Nearly everybody blamed Congress, which still fiddled with conscription, carped at voting the second half of the $11,000,000,000, held up legislation vital in safeguarding and stimulating defense production. Army and Navy officials whose testimony was published last week did indeed put most of the blame on Congress. They also distributed a little elsewhere, by inference put some on themselves...
...Nazi, although he had been keen to do business with Germany before the war. But they also felt his indiscretions and bad handling of the press had stirred prejudice and hysteria against him. Their explanation of the scandal was best put by Torkild Rieber himself: "My fault. I talk too much...