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...Russia not only lacked factories, but the pencils and drafting boards to design them. There was only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could make the Russians understand what they were talking about. Raw recruits from Russia's farms and city streets had to be converted into expert draftsmen and construction workers...
...production of synthetic jewels has reached 1,000,000 karats* a month, is going up fast. But some 10,000 U.S. workers must still be trained to cut and finish the raw jewels into the delicate, adamantine bearings which will resist wear, corrosion, friction...
Right now only some 7,500 of the union's 300,000 are on war work, and he thinks they have had a raw deal. Washington buyers have on more than one occasion subsidized new plants and trained green workers to do jobs which I.L.G.W.U.'s skilled cutters and needleworkers and their machines were ready and waiting to take...
...believed that it had abolished for all but criminals, have become a common experience of our time. No one in this "century of the great social wars" is safe from them. But few writers have Novelist Koestler's talent for recreating their minute-by-minute impact on the raw nerves of sensitive, civilized man, his extraordinary ability to observe and record the details of suffering while he is suffering...
...Fong's is an article in the Harvard Business Review which points out that Japan's economic reorganization of Occupied China has produced only limited gains, while China has greatly strengthened herself economically. In particular Japan has failed to make Occupied China a source of supply of foodstuffs and raw materials...