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...British workers. So the International Labor Office in Geneva reported, following a survey of 32 industries for the period 1935-39. In agriculture and transportation, productivity was about the same in both countries. The U.S. productive edge was highest in automobiles, radios, tires, tin cans, etc., where the "scope of automatic machines is great...
...dark horses, Missouri cronies, Senatorial comrades, and citizens-of-stature-deserving-high-executive-positions were included in the new Truman Cabinet, that body would have to hold its meetings in the waiting-room at Grand Central Station. This might not help governmental efficiency, but it would certainly give wider scope to the purveyors of political chit-chat...
Naturally the scope of the faculty committee's research will be much wider than this one difficulty. But a solution of even this one problem would eliminate the majority of current complaints against the College's advisory system...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
From 40 Filing Cases. In Roosevelt and Hopkins, Playwright Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) has written the best book on World War II by an American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced...