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of life. If anybody raised a fuss, “this policy wasn't being followed,” they got it right out and they followed it for a few days, or attempted to. But then they would run into a situation, you see, where a union paperhanger wouldn't take a job that was offered him in some other industry where his paperhanging skill would be used--wouldn't take it at all. Well, that had been one of the things that had been agreed upon, you see--that he should take it. But when they ran into that, they just passed over it.

It was the only way to do. You just couldn't fight it out in each town and each community. So a lot of those policies that were worked out with such difficulty never amounted to a row of pins.

The best thing, I think, that was done was the roster of sciences and scientific schools. I got quite interested in that. A man from the Department of Education at the University of Indiana was brought on to head that up, and he made a very valiant effort to make a whole list of schools and colleges, and particular courses in particular colleges, that were giving the kind of training that would be needed for the future scientist, as well as a list of men that were then enrolled. The names weren't read out, but they had the list of men there that was available.

But then Hershey said, “Well, what makes me sick is the





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