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...manufacturing East was dead: steel was down in the greatest strike in history. The smoke lifted over Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. The glow of slag dumps dimmed in Birmingham, Ala. The blast furnaces of South Chicago and Youngstown, from which swaying ladles had drawn the molten seed of national growth, now cooled in unnatural silence. The wonder of the world, a national capacity to produce 95,000,000 tons of steel a year, was wonderfully impotent...
They had substantial gripes, too. Not the least of them were the frequent failures of a poorly indoctrinated officer corps, which paid less & less attention to the G.I.s and more & more attention to its own comfort and amusement. While officers played, the men went to seed...
...paying the president too much money'-whether the directors 'who aren't doing anything might be getting too much money'-whether 'the engineers ought to be sweeping up the shop instead of designing their products'-whether 'the managerial personnel has gone to seed...
Universal military training? No, sir! Boys of 18 and 19 should not be taken out of school; they are "the seed corn of the Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...other (seed) fell into good ground and brought forth fruit...