Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Minister Funk was praised in no less a German economic journal than the semi-official Vierjahres-plan-for "an organization achievement of the greatest dimensions." The achievement: devising a General Economic Council which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist, and put Field Marshal Hermann Göring in. Effusiveness of the praise which was given Herr Funk made it look suspiciously as if he was being eased out, and given credit as a face-saver...
...Hardly was the Herald's ink dry on this story when Berlin correspondents found No. 2 Nazi Göring in conference at the Chancellery with Nazi No. 1 and other party bigwigs, as they drafted their usual New Year proclamations to the German people. "Leader, command," keynoted Marshal Göring's proclamation this week. "We follow...
...result of experiences during four months of war . . . Marshal Goring is taking over the direct management of war economy through the Economic General Staff. . . . The Ministries, with their respective Cabinet Ministers, are being reduced to purely routine administrative functions. ... A more substantial war loan is expected to be floated soon, presumably next month. . . . The attempt at the start of the war to introduce a deflationary policy by lowering wages and prices and extending working hours met such resistance in practice that it had to be largely abandoned. . . . The eight-hour day had to be restored. . . . Furthermore, while the slogan...
...which there were no opposition candidates. On ships of the Baltic Fleet, said a Moscow broadcaster, harmonicas played ceaselessly as the crews eagerly voted "for the invincible Stalinist bloc." He told how airmen fresh from bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin's district was 100% for him. Concluded the announcer: "In the northernmost electoral unit of the Soviet Union, aboard the icebreaker Sedov -adrift for two years in Arctic ice-the hardy crew could not sleep owing to their...
...Item-of-the-week on the economic front was an advertisement by the Admiralty Marshal of the British Contraband Control, offering for public sale "200 dozen baby's rubber pants," seized from the Danish freighter Helvig...