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...registered and their skills classified. Lowest classifications: bartenders, florists, taxi men, candy salesmen, etc. Many cannot quit a job without permission. No one can even advertise for a job, or for a worker, without a permit. N.S.S. Director Arthur MacNamara (also Deputy Minister of Labor) is empowered to shift any worker to a job where he is needed more. Transferred workers must accept the wage rates paid by the employer to whom they are assigned, no matter how much more they may have been getting at their old jobs. In cases where workers thus suffer reductions in income, the Government...
...when the men of the 716th threw themselves on the mercy of a cold court last week, all their brag was gone. The defense made its points as well as it could: 1) the accused had been left largely to shift for themselves soon after Dday, and so had become easy prey for the black-marketeers; 2) officers knew of the situation and tolerated it; 3) so many units were entangled that feelings of moral guilt reached the vanishing point...
...speeded it into action was no longer commander of all of it. The German bulge had split Hoyt Vandenberg's rule over it. Two of his three fighter-bomber components-Quesada's and Brigadier General Richard E. Nugent's-had been shifted at least temporarily from Vandenberg's to "Mary" Coningham's command. The switch was a part of the realignment by which Field Marshal Montgomery had taken over command of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies, with which Quesada's and Nugent's air groups had been bracketed. Actually the shift...
...bulldozers were at work. As a result, reconversion was no longer a bogey to frighten businessmen. In the days when the collapse of Germany was expected momentarily, the basic rules for reconversion had been hastily laid. Under them, some 95% of U.S. industry could see the path cleared to shift from war to peace production within two months after the green light was given...
...blue-eyed, broad-shouldered, hot-tempered, chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power of the Inquisition by trying to help a soldier...