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...woman's place is in the home, and few women have been placed in factories. But boys of twelve work afternoons in war industries, and soldiers are frequently used as laborers. Transport has been crippled by the labor shortage. In Rome trains and trams run only at the peak hours. Travel between cities is impossible without special police permission. Only one train a day runs between Naples and Rome; once there were 15. And trains do not run on time...
...Administration had made mistakes on the food front. He promised specific help to farmers: 1) more machinery, 2) deferment of 3,000,000 farm laborers from the draft this year, 3) a "land army" of students, women, part-time workers, 4) temporary Army furloughs, to help out at peak periods. But at last Franklin Roosevelt had been really prodded by a domestic defeat, was really looking for a new strategy...
...American Steel & Wire Co. When American Steel & Wire became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901 he bossed Big Steel's foreign developments, became president ten years later. Under him the corporation developed its own far-ranging carrier fleets, wide-scattered mines, reached a sales peak of nearly $1½ billions in '29. He retired at 70 to put the management on a "more permanent foundation composed of younger...
Idealistic Greeks thought otherwise. To them, human reason, wisdom, was the highest peak that man could reach. But, says Dr. Niebuhr, this belief did not help them to fulfill themselves in the everyday things of life...
...Peak employment of the Project was in March 1936, when the payroll numbered 7,535. The Project included beached newsmen, unpublished poets and novelists, high-school teachers, graduates of schools of journalism who had never held jobs, a great crowd of people who had always "wanted" to write...