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“Watch out! Since she's heard that the railways are sacking the women ticket collectors she'll have your fingers.”
THE
Sefton Delmer's Newsmap
BRIGHT LIGHTS OF HAMBURG PRESENT A CHALLENGE
MONDAY
I suppose that I have been through this airport at least 200 times,
WHO'LL PAY?
in war.
C.V.R. Thompson Mind over matter
NEW YORK.
THEY did not hang
America's Lord Haw. Haw, Ezra Pound; the 69- year-old eccentric poet. Instead they sent him to mental home.
That was because a group of America's top mind doctors. decided he did not know what he was doing when he made propaganda for Mussolint during the wor,
But a jury of America's finest poets han caused a front-pago sensation by disagreeing with the doctors.
They have given Pound the £250 Bollingen prize for the "highest achievement in Ameri can poetry," because of poem he wrote while, awalling trial.
mis-
The poets had some givings about the political reac tion to their decision, which perhaps made it all the more sincere.
Sald they: "TO merit other considerations than that of poetic achievement Would
the significance of the
From the sidelines. tho
Their
One Tanka entitled Shadow Babao, or the Hawk's Wing Of No Fortune and with a
name to conte
Is Downright Iniquity, said J.
Adama
average Araerican today decid- West Germany, for better ored that the doctors, rather than for worse, is now part of the the poets, were right about Western world. Shortly it will Pound. be part of Western Union.
evidence--the stonzas We have done our best to help of his poem called "Pisan Can- West Germany reconstruct her tos." Excerpts from it-
4
We argue that we are afraid Thuringia to Britain are now industries and Industrial poten- p. m. And real beer he gives us to
Polish Settin tal. Certainly this means comTI- with them, nat
Germans build passing through theof letting the
meet
it by Northolt drink
Nussion-occupied Rostock petition. But we must coloured water of 1040.
seagoing vessels for tear that and
commercial enter- Airport:
these might be used against us and Wismar, instead of Ham- hard work,
burg. It is clear that unemploy- prise, and superior engineering "We must compete with Ger- The fact is that we are afraid
skill.
that the
many by adding to the wealth of German shipbuilding
the world It is useless and NEWS yards, though not as modern as
senseless trying to impose an un- PAPERS ours and with a potential one-
I AM
economical monopoly by force. announce tenth the size-will be able to
buck in that un- undercut us-
BECAUSE
Britain. "FOOTNOTE: German wages work- employment in the British and the German workers are wo
What is are still at pre-war level. The of U.S.
zones, has risen to just ing harder and longer for lower
warker gets above A
wages, and BECAUSE German my conclusion from this rapid akilled shippard million.
survey? I believe we must lift mark 20 an hour. His British guaranteed to Here In Hambing yards, anxious to get back, are
this ban on German shipbuild- opposite number 33., nearly easier for the typist to. read St has risen by cutting pofits to a minimum.
back her notes. 30,000 during last month.
Each time I must have stared listing at the big but notice abjects which a passenger air- craft is not allowed to carry.
for the first time this trip
become ownre
Kreat
On
}
have
B. E. A.'0
от
worm mystery.
Every Hem that long donger list is either highly indammable or highly explosive or both. Every Hem. that is, except one: meal worms. But there they are, be- tween lyn mito and petrol: MEAL WORMS.
And not a soul here сап tell
me
why.
Over p.m. Hamburg: We are
WEDNESDAY
A meal worm, Mr. Delmer, Is the larrs of a beetle found in Bour, bran, and (not surprising- 17) mesi. At one tiiao tho Ger. mana had a meal-worm Karta al Essen which annually ex- ported £10,000 worth of these "delikatessen ” for birds and reptiles.
'dircling
the over Below me a Japanese for Alster. carnival of lights.. Lights in soon
: The main rea
ກ 15 that the
It is a mere rumour that re- strictions 'might be lifted. Herr with Schecker got in touch Norwegian shipping firms and obtained tentative orders from them for seven motor-ships of to buy the goods 3,000 tons dead weight each. Ποιν being
German publie does
not have th money
pro- duced. The export markets are not
taking
enough of them either.
Kurt, my driver,
*
Herr The price quoted by Schecker Was £175,000, about 15 percent, cheaper than Britain could quote.
And Herr Schecker was says: "At Christ prepared-once he got the green ilght-to deliver his first ship in mas I was offered 12 months' time.
No British
ment in this city will rise unless they are allowed to work.
ing.
'LIFT BAN'
YESTERDAY
double.
At 35 instead of 21.05. EDUCATION: Because nearly 40 percent of all would-be short- secretaries fail in their hand examinations in America, they have at last produced a form of America's simplified
popular system. It is most
make
★ POST-MORTEM REPORT-On a great American illusion
YOU CANNOT BUILD HOUSES
BY MASS PRODUCTION
NEW YORK.
it much
not yield the remarkable profits THE American housing industry, which was going to that were expected of it. There was, it sterns, something to be cover the land with new homes overnight and show sala for the old as they managed to get orders for the next three years, the world how to do it, has come a cropper. Most of methods that were to be swept
and tried
# major
job to drive a van as factory
yards, full up as they are with
Now
could meet him there,
NEW SPIRIT
FRIDAYSE
the streets, lghts in the shops, a van they had ordered. lights in the restaurants, lights business is so bad that the radio in the homes.
factory has cancelled the order for the van."
On my last visit here 18 months ago. there was hardly enough power to keep the trams going.
Усл if we don't look out I dare say that the British tax- But I am making this flight to payer will find himself having Hamburg to pay for German unemploy- And out what these lights are likely to mean to you ment relief before the year is and me in terms of (1) the out. And those lights in Hamburg Battle of Berlin and Moscow's won't make it any cheaper. political and economic ̈-war- against the West; and (2) the return of German competition to the markets of the world.
Are these lights premature?
TUESDA
on her 500 marks (£25) a month than she would an double the money in London.
NEW FLEET?
THURSDAY
which
these
me
I AM VI-
was cheaper to assemble a roof
The company found that it
the new homes that were going to spring up as a result aside. of a combination of Henry Ford's assembly line methods and Henry Kaiser's prefabrication, along Liberty ship in siting the lines, have not been built. Hamburg ship-
war.
By
JOHN ALLETSON
the
hut right on the site than to bulld it on to the house, step by
step,
So far so good. But the cost of hauling the finished roof from the hut and placing it in position on the house ate up all the sav-
than before.
Many of the firms who were yards with a British dock pass going to do it have cut their obtained for
by
out. Amerien, losses and got Herr Schecker. And I am full of with not a house destroyed by admiration for the tenacity with bombing. today faces as acule
of it is on a straight fee basis and ing and the net result was worse shortage some German firms, working in what tuon the countries devastated by someone else like the basis
The cause of all the troubleach crane needed three-men... a forbidden Industry, are mak-
They could not work when it In the months following VJ has been costs and the costing rained, for the crane sank into I AM ing their way back.
companies who the mud. Day, American builders were Most of
When they did not thinking Many of their installations going to show those old-fashion- started out with such high hopes work, the erectors of the steel that they went frames stood idle too. The as- of the
are sull rubble and twisted fron. ed Europeans, pottering along now
a their costs.
Raw material costs and wages There is the case of the mass went up all along the line. production housing company in figher and higher cash deposits
startled Maryland which
the had to be asked from buyers. some The stream of customers dried industry in 1947, with
up. radical new. techniques.
This firm planned to build all
confess
·B.EAS Their machines have red num-with their medieval craftsman- seriously wrong in estimating sembly line ground to a halt.
minules.
MYTH
WHO'LL BUY?
meal worms ugain. A talk I I have TIMES Just had with Herr Theodor bers on them, denoting that they ship, how to build houses in
or due for delivery as repara-hurry." general manager of
THE BIC IDEA tions. have Schecker,
the State owned Howard ship- certainly
yards in Hamburg and Kiel, has changed.
And yet here they are, repair- The idea was that their separ- I meet Margaret, a British girl put them back in my mind.
ing steamers, converting a blgate parts would be built in working in German office,
For Herr Schecker's ship- Norwegian ship so that it may factories, brought straight to the paid in German money, drawing yards, like all German ship- carry Displaced Persons from building sites in lorries and the separate parts of its houses German ration cards, and rent-
In Indiana another company ing a German roora. She tells yards, have a thing in common Europe to Australia "A busi-stored there in temporary ware- in separate huts erected near the Anys Herr Schecker, houses, then taken to the foun- site of the planned estate. From with meal worms--they are ness," me that she is living better here under a ban.
"frem which the Norwegians dations and put in place in a few there, complete walls, complete that started out in 1940 to build cellings, complete floors, were to 1,000 houses by the most modern hope to make much money."
Numerous "Henry Fords" of be carted to the foundations and methods has gone out of the By the terms of the Potsdam The vast steel structure from the housing world issued fum- put together. Heating units and business with only 628 bullt
German shipyards which the Berengaria was boyant press releases telling just plumbing fittings were assembled I find this strange. For the Agreement, prices in the shops for consumer are forbidden to build seagoing launched is now building 300- how it was going to be done. similarly, all ready to go into
Few of them are left today. Cabinet-level ton midget fishing trawlers. goods-pots and pans, bouts and ships. However,
At the Ume the idea sounded shoes seem to me about the conversations have started in
"But unless we get permission good. Mass purchasing of raw COSTING WENT WRONG London between the Americans,
that there is money to be made same as in Britain,
and the French, and ourselves con- to build new ships for export," materials was going to cut costs
The houses were to have a on mass production housing, pro- ratloned food is, if anything,
said Herr Scheck it, "wo shall to a fraction. With the number
The entire root vided huge capital is at the bit dearer. Few people seem to cerning this unn,
lo begin dismissing of houses it was proposed to frame of steel.
disposal of the builders. be buying. But there is certainly
derrick, and stip
slip into place
In California a firm which The Americans want it lifted workers next month. Our repair build, much smaller pronts would was to go on, with the aid of plenty to buy.
Or so it seemed. orders are not enough to keep us do.
neatly. There were to be 10 bullt 000 houses by the assembly They wont such altogether.
going."
brand new houses every day.
Iine" method has given up, its But the costing went wrong attempt to become "the glant of German shipyards as remain- three-fifths have been either destroyed or dismantled to be allowed to build as much mer- chant tonnage as they please.
Later: I am having a snack in the third-class waiting-room at the Altona Station. When I was in this waiting-room in 1940 it was full of
of homeless refugees huddling
together for warmth. The only
off-the-ration dish was a plate. of herring salad, mainly chopped turnips.
They are quite prepared to German see a revival of the
have
OLD FEAR
SATURDAY
even
لال اليوم
THE BIC FAILURE
place.
That company started with a capital of £02,500 and now confesses "it was not enough, by far." But its backers still belleve
What has actually happened? Originally, the houses were to One of the biggest enterprises in cell for £1,737 105. aplece. By modern building" and switched НАМ- BURG the business, with much larger the time the company decided to blocks of flats.
"It is a myth," says the chair- dock capital than most, has lost three- they had lost enough, It was workers quarters of a million dollars, and necessary to charge £2,675 and mon of that company, "to sup- at that price takers were few. pose that the mass builder can 10 decided call it all of.
1013 houses
The were, save much on his conts. Another, which did build most Altogether of the houses it planned, han bullt, and there are lots going difference between mass produc- tion costs and those of the small its begging today. hundreds of them still on
"We under-estimated our costs builder is not more than five hands and no buyers in sight--
IR they вге
figures aro also unemployment.
achleving turn-round faced with
Now there are no refugees, merchant ficel-likewise ba phenomenally fast The restaurant has been repaint- ned by Potsda.a. ed, and white linen cloths cover the tables.
The French and ourselves want And here comes the waller the ban maintained. At best we with
delicious
"We aren't of the big costing errors, it is who build by the old methads, Frankfort are prepared to let the Germans the cessation of trade with the see its money back. This com- chairman of that concern.
дру more housing how realised, was over the are doing all right. They still anusage, full of ment, price, 15. construct small coastal vessels in Russian zone have hit them pany now says,
Our official badly. Potash shipments, for touching
I did sell everything they can build. 2d. with a largo dollop of potato limited numbers. snlad.
Reason:, security.
instance, from Russian-occupied projects with a 10ft. pole, unless assembly-line scheme.
a
A-Peeling Diet
NANCY
HOW'S YOUR DIET ?
TH' BUNK
For the Berlin-blockade and at the price it must charge to from the start," sadly admits the percentnders of the old school.
AW--- IT'S
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YA LOSE WEIGHT
AND I GAINED THREE POUNDS IN AN HOUR '«‹‹
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