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...fast is the mysterious yearly shift of the Magnetic Pole...
...West Wall had come apart at a critical point, and he had no first-rate fighting men to cement the breaches. The might of Eisenhower's armies pressed in on him, threatened to engulf him at a dozen points, and he did not have the transport to shift his reserves (if any) to meet the worst of the threats...
...Lightning, which Lockheed will continue to build-but on a reduced schedule, to permit a shift to a new, secret Lockheed fighter...
...doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...
...living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...