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...this year than in all of the last war. In February alone almost two million high-explosive shells were turned out, and almost one and a quarter billion cartridges. Brass could not keep up; one big cartridge plant (now changed over to steel) was slowed almost to a shutdown waiting for brass...
...civilian-production quotas, it isn't fooling. So discovered the Hurley Machine division of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. Ordered to make only 44,000 washing and ironing machines last fall, said WPB, Hurley made 76,000 instead. The penalty, imposed by WPB last week: complete shutdown of production for six months. Suggested name for quota chiselers: chislings...
...last week began to feel other shortages on which the U.S. Army could not conceivably offer any advice. The shortage of wool inspired the Hickey-Freeman Co.. of Rochester to query its customers on their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
...cantos. He fell for the Fasces that seemed to mean Order. In his crotchety isolation he desired an audience; his own country ignored him; Fascismo flattered him. His half-bantering egomania became huge. When World War II began, chafing at new difficulties of communication, he wrote: "Am inconvenienced by shutdown of London...
There were other signs that Germany's Christmas would be far from gemütlich. French factories, even those working on German war orders, got an unwelcome holiday vacation of two weeks in the form of a shutdown to save coal. In Hungary the food situation was so acute that hunters were permitted to use precious gasoline driving to the woods in taxis. The Reich is so short of doctors that it is advertising for more physicians in the occupied countries. The overworked doctors in Germany itself have been warned not to prescribe iodine, aspirin or diets with extra...