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...first was an economic and scientific section, headed by a New York department-store executive. Colonel Raymond C. Kramer. Its ultimate function: to see to the demilitarization of Japan's industry and advise the supreme commander on reparations. Its immediate task: to activate a minimum economy for Japan, where everything stood stock still...
Entitled "Let Freedom Ring" and signed by the Emergency Council, the stapled muzzle proclaimed in patronizing tone that the "function of Jester "is to be a humorous magazine, in the New Yorker Style, but the editor has chosen this issue as his personal medium for an adulterated discussion of a matter which has already been settled...
Atomic Silver. The Treasury announced with some pride that 14,000 tons of its silver had been used in the manufacture of the atomic bomb. Its function: to replace critically short copper in the electrical connections of the manufacturing apparatus. WPB, acting for the War Department, was the borrower. WPB will have at least six months after the war is officially ended to get all the silver back...
...Society of Exterminating Engineers. Other engineers now include: sleep-engineer (bedding manufacturer), imagineer (idea-man), custodian-engineer (one who furnishes creative janitorial service), esthetic-engineer (an artist), pediatric-engineer (a corn-cutter), civilization-engineer (a scientist), odor-engineer (perfume manufacturer), and social-engineer (one who "appreciates that one important function of education is the release of the potential energies in human nature...
...construction, function and looks, both G.E.'s and G.M.'s refrigerators closely resembled prewar models. They will probably cost a little more. But the one thing civilians wanted most to know about them was: "When do we get one?" There was no definite answer: nobody knew what course reconversion would take...