One Year of Defense Arming finds U. S. Gaining on Reich Production
SHORT, GEORGE
One Year of Defense Arming finds U. S. Gaining on Reich Production By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.— This cojrntry has been,arming for exactly a year. ;On May 28,...
...Dorothy has joined the Fight tat Freedom committee which is for a declaration of war...
...As to our production of other weapons, light tanks are being produced at the rate of 150 a month at several plants throughout the country...
...Bridges' Washington friends are a little worried over the changes which might be effected in the Department of Justice by that time...
...There is no estimate of this number yet, but in the decade from 1920-1930 more than six million persons flowed from the farm to the city...
...Brndhag over Woltman, he howled: "Stand up, you Roy Howard prostitute...
...The Germans will be slightly inconvenienced in their espionage efforts...
...Its suspension here will not curtail its activities in Latin-America, it can obtain U.S...
...tM ln between that safety lies...
...3hich one do you think he would visit on a moonlit night...
...The Washington crowd has bean wonking overtime to gain support for the west coast longshoreman chief...
...Compare this with the $13,100,000,000 the U.S...
...Murray knows this...
...German charge d'Affaires Hans Thomsen seldom participated in extra-legal activities, but Gestapa agents-operating in the German embassy had a national apparatus functioning...
...iWsuld it have been enough just to give first-aid to the victims...
...The Germans will find it difficult to substitute an apparatus for that run in New Orleans by Baron Edgar von Spiegel, and the "network operated by Dr...
...establish censorship between this and any foreign nation...
...It is well known to observers that each Italian and Spanish consulate is in the hands of a special German agent...
...Herbert Scholz in Boston...
...The shipping information machinery which German Consul Fritz Wied-deman set up in a house overlooking the San .Francisco Bay, and the one Consul Borchers operated at 17 Battery Place in New York, from which he' could see over the New York Harbor, will be supplanted by other techniques...
...Bat if Hitler'wins the...
...In addition no fewer than 1,000 Nazi newsreel prints were shown here...
...During the past year 3,683 prints of pictures have been sent from Berlin to the United States...
...Before he left Wisconsin, Porter was offered the city managership of Kenosha...
...How the $37,300,000,000 authorized for defense will be spent can be guessed from the following: . about $6,500,000,000 will go for planes and accessories...
...It will start in Washington...
...With men, parts, and other equipment considered such a loss comes to well over $75,000,000 for the evening...
...industry has put its reputed efficiency to work "with some success, this can be better measured by a comparison with Germany's production—which, at present rates, may not be reached by the U.S...
...T will be ra^Sajrt^nApr^elore any report is anally iM)bnjaf»sd ¦* by Judge Sears t^r^the new Attorney General on the Bridges hearing...
...you're getting fat on capitalist money...
...When the American Newspaper Guild lost the Boston Globe NLRB election on June 12, it put Guild President Donal Sullivan, a Globe reporter, in the position of having another union bargain for him...
...Nazi strategists intend to circumvent this decision by showing their films in German halls and operating the projecting machines themselves...
...Thurman Arnold sees the small merchants and small manufacturers similarly squeezed between big -business and the trade vdons...
...These are the most powerful ships afloat...
...Pointing to his friend, Freddie said, *Be's iiiMeemmt, if theme!* a fight let him alone...
...He gets 300 hundred complaints a day, and he tells interesting stories about how a few ot the complainants have been helped, a federal agency set up thirteen months after the launching of •tie^efense program is very much too late to do an effective job in '8ns war...
...a bad guess...
...It was Jimmy Dugan, jive expert fonmer scoria wsttk for the New Masses and new with aha fellow-traveling Friday...
...The* closing of the Transocean Press is meaningless now...
...When the Guild picketed the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union last week, the newspapermen working Dot tbe ILGWU were hungry, since it was lunch hour...
...And they have succeeded...
...a similar sum for the Navy and $7,000,000,000 for Lend-Lease, and-a better picture is obtained of the production pace still to be reached by America...
...Its next sequence will tell the story of the Krivitsky murder...
...The federal government has turned out to be the defense center for the small-agriculturalists...
...Don't bite your nails," they say, "our rules will ¦either cost you money nor drive youri tenants out to the open .*JBaees.» Then, just to prove their good intentions, they publish Swings to show that life will be dangerous up to the sixth floor 9 ah...
...If he was a really good man, would he not have called the police...
...an aircraft carrier takes $50,-000,000...
...TMBESS PICKUPS: Paul Porter, who knows the labor movement well, goes to work for the information section of the OPM's labor division this week...
...It alone has.the facilities tp line them up...
...A picture of the cost and the reasons for the slowness of defense effort can be seen from the following: the 35,000-ton U-S-Si North Carolina cost $70,000^000...
...A 16-inch gun costs $1,000 to fire...
...In addition, the President has accumulated unprecedented powers which enable him to act as speedily, under a democratic national Government, as does Berlin under its "coordinated" state...
...They advocate, let as say, a league of nations which would do away with war...
...and take over or close any radio station...
...Some films released by the Tobis Film Company are designed to stir up anti-British feeling among] Irish Americans...
...He rehemently attacked the government for asking Bridges' deportation, and then completely revemed himself on the Inglewood strike...
...A heavy tank costs $114,000, not including the cost of guns...
...5,900,000,-000 for pay, food, reserves etc...
...There is also Siegfried Hauck, owner of Flanders Hall publishing house, whose pamphlets have been boosted by George Seldes in In Fact...
...Evidently the moral is that cistance doesn't count The good neighbor and the good Christian ^fright across to the guy who is in trouble no matter where he %,xjt who he is...
...Morris Watson will be jettisoned by his own fraction members at the Detroit Guild convention...
...the Neueste Nachrichten...
...This will release more food for urban dwellers, and possibly provide some surplus...
...O^lS^" After a few minutes of naroS'^clSing .Dugan raged: "Woltman...
...Jaaaes was mad...
...They will suggest ways of cutting costs and increasing profits...
...By this time Dugan was ¦^gtnjfijk ">]/ another burly party activist...
...Arnold thinks, the small men can live and flow, competition and the open market can be maintained, and democracy will not go the way of the dinosaur...
...Pat Casey, labor relations man of the Motion Picture Producers' Association, is leaning over backuxirds to befriend some of the local citpimissars...
...Late but important support for Bridges cams unexpectedly from Richard Frankensteen, who too* put in the wsfawrtt chair by Use government...
...So the county agent teaches them .h(bw to get more out of their land, how to secure the benefits of cooperation and—even—how to borrow money at lower rates of toterest...
...The point ia that to stop such people these unpleasant "opera-;t*ms" are sometimes necessary...
...create new gqv-vernmental agencies for industrial mobilization, price control, and defense...
...He was only a humble chap without any business...
...Tads eolaniits w&tviaaaaM Tar Wwhiniian, eaaegally in ianjalanwiat circles...
...On May 28, 1940 President Roosevelt appointed a seven-member Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense...
...With proper help, he thinks, they can be fitted in...
...V...
...So they walked hy on the other side...
...Typical of the endemic Nazis is George Sylvester Vier-eck, who receives $1,000 a month as adviser and literary stylist for the German library of Information and as representative" of...
...open British ports to American merchant marine...
...If he doesn't declare himself, there will be an open break...
...Both as cttisens and Christians, therefore, we must in loyalty to conscience affirm our pledge not to use our ministry to bless, •sanction, or support war...
...Production of medium (26-ton) tanks will hit the quantity stage this summer...
...D. C, where the anti-totalitarian unions plan to sat W a rival CIO industrial council...
...Not to be outdone, Freddie reached up, felt Dugan's muscle, pinched his cheek, put his finger in his paunch and retorted: "You're not doing so badly yourself on Party funds...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN j^PO Preocfcers and the Good Samaritan 0»E,thousand preachers are a lot of piety, and they, or their sermons, placed end-to-end would reach from" good to evil...
...Suppose, for ^¦jamle, that a gallant swain is equally attracted to two maidens of whom lives on the sixth floor and the other on 1jie seventh...
...The fact that the DNB news agency and correspondents of German newspapers can operate in New York and Washington will give Germany a full information gathering apparatus...
...It is still providing news and radio programs in all South American nations...
...The Nazis exploited the incident...
...I hope they will rise up and an-rwer me...
...3^800,000,000 for new industrial facilities...
...New York Supreme Court Justice Shientag last weak denied Friday's motion for dismissal of the suit...
...Within the past few months three 3">,000-ton warships have been launched...
...Our old friend, A. J. Muste, has assembled the names of this regiment ^ aermonizers at the end of an anti-war pledge...
...He will be heading off dictatorship by a .;•«*> of really fearsome dragons...
...They will receive from their voluntary allies information that will help to hold in check both, capitalistic monopolists and racketeering trade inion leaders...
...We could pick plenty of passages from the New Testament as expressions of these teachings: Let's take the tale of the Good Samaritan...
...The blow-up in CIO will come shortly over the NMU's proposed national peace conference in the Yankee Stadidni...
...Instead, there are now indications that the big producers will shortly make fheir deal with the many Hollywood Guilds...
...The Hollywood melange has finally hit the KKK stage and a lot more than Back Benny may ride again...
...Work has started on 312 major combat ships out of 358 contracted for...
...Gontrary to reports, Phil Murray did not quash those plans...
...3,300,000,000 for military posts, depots, fortifications, and defense housing...
...Germany today has some 35,000 first line planes...
...In preserving small business, he figures, he -will be saving democracy itself...
...During the past few weeks many pro-British critics of Roosevelt's caution have charged him with undue hesitancy...
...Large factories bordering on rural areas are drawing many youngsters into the shops...
...Could she sue the Of-**of Civilian Defense" for damages...
...This came after John Lewis and Lee Pressman had long talks with CIO's nominal chief last week...
...Their statement is a challenge which demands a reply: "As Christians we see no possibility of reconciliation between the cen<tra!teachings of Jesus and the necessary operations of war...
...requisition struck factories, and transportation systems...
...Germany's production of all types is near 4,000 per month mark...
...in Chicago, 111., the Little German Theatre at 2153 Lincoln Ave...
...Then suppose that the "experts" are wrong about this whole ¦•ashless, of the middle stories being the safe ones...
...a cruiser takes $20,000,000 to $30,000,-000...
...This slowness of pace appears to be disappearing...
...seize foreign and domestic merchant vessels...
...news from any of the prominent American news services...
...The trial closed last week...
...Paul, Minn...
...Hauck has distributed 22,000 copies of anti-British booklets...
...Murray will be asked to recognize the new council...
...But suppose these gangsters kept up their Operations in a big way...
...The other night he told the American Business Congress about his dream...
...By voluntary cooperation he will get nationwide coverage...
...Transocean was exposed by The New Leader some five years ago when it first put into operation its' news and propaganda...
...The Guilds, like the left-wing CIO unions, are exploiting the many legitimate grievances which the mrfvie hands have, in order to move in and regain their old control over the Hollywood front Meanwhile some Kji Klux Klan or viciiante groups have set up a secret Committee of Twenty-one and are circulating accurate but semi-literate information on the local fellow-travelers...
...work can continue in the world...
...It is only by the defeat iflp',r that their sort of...
...take over the power resources of the nation, as well as powerhouses, dams, conduits and reservoirs...
...At the same time, auto sales curved upward sharply...
...fn New York City, at the 96th St...
...t ¦:- :*r ¦ • As a good Sunday School pupil I want to start an argument trita these multiplied pastors...
...It cost the Germans something like $300,000,000 in planes alone to take Crete...
...For their point is an important one...
...Nothing will stop the showing of these pictures until the Government starts prosecuting the responsible foreign agents for failure to register in accordance with the Foreign Agent Registration Act...
...So, Mr...
...The party line in South America is to emphasize "YamqmiImperialism...
...U.S...
...The farmers have been caught between the machinery trust and the big, mechanized farm...
...One Year of Defense Arming finds U. S. Gaining on Reich Production By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.— This cojrntry has been,arming for exactly a year...
...In May we produced 50 less than in April...
...The fact that we figure our defense efforts in terms of dollars indicates the vast difference between the German and American economy...
...This estimate was made by WPA officials, who pointed out that the defense program could not absorb this number...
...One of the Depart-ment of Commerce men told us the other night that the government is worried over the type of motion pictures being sent to South America...
...Party line unions in New York, Wilmington, Newark and Chicago are actively at work on the national peace conference...
...The girl has lost ¦w beau and the landlord his rent because, of...
...Despite this increased spending and prosperity, Congress this week heard that 5,500,000 persons will be jobless this year...
...It costs $900—about the price of a small family car—to fire a 14-inch gun from a battleship...
...Jay Allen will be released from a Nazi prison camp next month...
...The captain of the line was sent to Washington by the NMU's executive board...
...It is vital that the Hollywood technical staffs, especially the research- departments, be unimpeachable...
...The first might be an Austrian, the second a Czechoslovak, arid the third a Pole...
...An BBkind onlooker might even accuse him of facilitating the "operations" of the racketeers...
...In the lead will be the Washington Newspaper Ouild and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...48,800,000,000 for ships, motor and rail equipment...
...There is very little hoarding of food, though...
...An added factor is the reversal of the depression trend of city men going back to the farms...
...And that union may soon go into the AFL...
...control banking and gold...
...table...
...present conflict, we shall have a world government of highway men—and then what will hap...
...order transportation priorities of freight-and troop movements...
...They are, of course, in favor of a better social system which would cat down the production of highway robbers...
...Invitations wlJJ he jaw Bad to fjl non-Communist unions...
...But the Assistant Attorney General is all steamed up...
...jAW Zl*^...-"m-'** ¦--¦»•''•-*V—¦---»- - - Thurman Arnold and Karl Man -JT-HE appropriation in support of Thurman Arnold's Anti-Trust Jf Division has been increased 60%, and the Connecticut folklorist has begun to see visions...
...If speculation can be avoided, food prices will not rise higher than present levels...
...To avoid paying, Friday must prove that Hearst was bribed by the Nazis to color the news in their favor...
...warning: "The Party will take ar&fritenary action, against you if' you indulge in individual terrorism^^Ougan didn't think it ftinny, and -She Harvard man made reaSgijSfc protsct himself with the sugar bowl...
...assign priorities for any materials...
...Which is a large order...
...Freddy grinned jovially, muttered something about a Moscow maniac, and warned: "Come on, Dugan, no cope and robbers staff, new...
...The argument hinges about "the central teachings of Jesus...
...Foreign movie-goer^, seeing their life absurdly misrepresented, are pasily offended...
...With a 20% cut in auto production already asked by the OPM to save materials and tools for armaments, the second-hand car business is flourishing, with many sales being made in the $200-$500 class to defense workers who never had a car before...
...I don't know *¦ thing about it, but I am wiHing~*to bet a subscription to the •^W Leader that they are completely cockeyed...
...Robert Jackson will have been confirmed hy the Senate...
...Cleveland, Ohio, has private showings of Victory in the West, The Capture of Norway and Conquest of Poland...
...The Nazi newspaper, "Deutsche <Nachrichten," ia published semi-weekly in Lithuania, now part of "Soviet Russia...
...te;him lead'his army of^small business men in a gallant attack...
...When Government Attorney Del Guerdo asked him whether the five men he km suspended for calling the rebel strike were Communist*—and, Wyndham Mortinter was among them.—he indignantly answered: "The Jive me* whom I suspended were, definitely not Communists...
...A Samaritan, or a Christian, who contents himself with endlessly binding up wounds has a job for life and really isn't doing an effective job of ending misery...
...control imports and exports...
...The new political trend in comic strips will be climaxed shortly in Hap Hopper, written by Bob Allen and Drew Pearson...
...Probably he was out looking for some of the lilies of the field to make a bouquet for his wife...
...Quietly operating out of Boston he is reported to have effectively worked .with many American Quislings...
...Then came the fellow from Samaria...
...keep the draftees in service indefinitely...
...Too much importance can not be placed on the subtle sabotage some Hollywood scenario men can work into the present crop of films without leaving the slightest trace of umbilical cordage tie-up to the caviar and brown-shirted crowds...
...A four-engined bomber, complete with spare parts, costs close to $500,000...
...Faced with the possibility of "gasless Sundays," a substantial number of travelers are taking motor vacations early...
...Now, asks Jesus, "Which of these was the good neighr?" You see, -the Samaritans were nobodies...
...at the Bluebird Theatre, 900 Rice Street, in St...
...is building at the rate of 1,350 a month —all types...
...About a month later these men had created a . skeleton-staff for their headquarters and werefachig the task of turning a peace time economy into a war machine in as short a time as possible...
...Carl Raridau, former New York Guild president and a veteran lellcw-'raveler, -is now in Japan for PM...
...ditWhin'nnt" fwf immediately^jgj^jBfnat.ing his finger at him...
...The mart going down to Jericho on a business trip ran into a stick-up and was "left bleeding on the pavement...
...in Philadelphia privately at Moose Hall, 1314 North Broad Street...
...The German American Bund shows it in Los Angeles at the German House, 634 West 15th St...
...After one year, despite the muddling in many Washington bureaus, strikes which have cost defense production 16,590,849 man days'in the first four months of 1941, inept handling of .government publicity, failure to supply-proper housing facilities and xiiscriniination against Negroes in nearly all defense factories, American industry is turning out formidable weapons in mass quantities...
...ships...
...Dan, GiTmor's weekly magazine, Friday, lost the'first round in the $500,000 libel suit brought against it by William Randolph Hearst...
...This is particularly true in coal and oil, with dealers reporting families laying in next winter's supply now...
...Despite these gentle words, the future looks complicated both landlords and for apartment house dwellers...
...And the-pain of the land-km about next October 1st may be equal to hers...
...Other recent arrivals are Ueber Alles in der Welt Stukas, Reitet ffir Deutsch-land, Anschlag auf Baku (plot against Baku — which, is part of Russia), and .Unteraeeboote Weatwarts...
...Arnold's social theory, we will all wish him luck In his effort to swing the midget manufacturers into the defense program...
...The thousand .preachers would answer that the neighbor from Sarasria didn't go to war against the stick-up men...
...Jf he accomplishes anything to spread armament orders to the uttle shops.' where tools and men are waiting, we shall all be fjattkfuL f » » • Haw to Dodge the Bombs 5"HE Civilian Defense people continue to reassure the real estate ^interests...
...AREPORT in this week's edition of The Nation to the effect that "a liberal publkast" may be named U. S. Ambassador to Russia refers to Max Lerner...
...The reviewer of the isolationist New York Daily News.T has consistently urged the public to see them...
...In Germany -Staple who are,hardy enough to bind up the wounds of beaten v J**8 are stexk unceremoniously into concentration camps...
...Anti-aircraft guns are being produced at a rate of 20 a month...
...In his mind's eye he sees the Department of Justice ex-ponded into a great service agency like the Department of Agri-tslture...
...a destroyer takes $8,000,000...
...Incidentally, this arrangement has proved' a mighty weapon in mobilizing the farmers for the defense program...
...Some of the most important persons in Washington have been sold on tbe idea that Bridges must net be deported...
...German motion picture propaganda is extensive in this country...
...Shortly, Murray will be faced by scores of CIO resolutions demanding the "congress" The National Maritime Union is one of the strongest unions in CIO...
...but much of this is going towards the stocking of durable goods in anticipation of curtailed supplies and possible national rationing...
...Buying Ways Change Under Defense Impact Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Mrs...
...And would thew not justifiably have used some of the "necessary operations of war...
...American Housewife, 19^41 model, is taking the defense impact on household living in stride...
...But the Harvard man...
...Little known to the public, Scholz is the most important consul in America...
...order convoying of U.S...
...Recent Argentine riots over one U. S. film with a, South American locale created bad blood in Buenos Aires...
...Nazi films are also shown at the Princess Theatre, 28th and Church Streets, in San Francisco...
...The horrors of war at the front would be as nothing to the *»«ni»h of the damsel on the lower level...
...As he says, in Germany «Twy shop does its part Here the little places—which in the mass possess enormous quantities of tools and machinery—are 4?t out...
...His experts will dispense free counsel...
...He plans to do for small business what thousands of county agents do for farmers...
...Suppose the Samaritan went on a block or two and found another victim and then another...
...Germany as a "bankrupt" nation can take the loss of 115 large bombers in one night over England in its stride...
...the German Kino carries Nazi films in Milwaukee...
...A government check-up on American buying habits shows a sharp upswing In retail spending...
...apartment house and on the six floors right under the roof...
...sell, lease, or lend all defense materials to any nation...
...order Dakar seized...
...The nation's food crops will be larger this year with wheat forecast at 910,699,000 bushels, 12% above last year...
...New York CIO anti-Lewis unions are talking of a separate CIO industrial council to buck the pro-Soviet one now run by Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union...
...shows German films...
...Theatre in Yorkville...
...In ^withholding support from Great Britain in this war these good men are, as -far as they can, permitting the abolition of good fWariUnism...
...Now go away or there'll be trouble," Dugan went away, frustrated...
...There are some 20,000 foreign agents in this country...
...for nearly three years...
...He aims as rapidly as possible to key all the groups of little men into his outfit...
...The priest and Pharisee were neutral as between the hold-up men and the business man—you jie, he was probably just an • imperialist in disguise going down to Jericho to make a profit on the stock exchange...
...The most recent of these is the "Irish Tragedy...
...The average age of the person on WPA, it was noted, is 43, and it is this age category which is being less readily absorbed...
...Victory in the West was shown to some 2,000 students in the New Lecture Hall on the Harvard campus...
...But while U.S...
...This seems to be the part chosen by our taousand clergymen...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL WELL, here we are, back to the weekly good deed, helping some of our publicity-shy citizenry lead their private politics," lives ant we nummt tell yen «f the adventures of Freddie WjjJjUd barfr cswtejwcT asttatostty remowMik^glaaa...
...QHIL MURRAY has developed no hidden strategy...
...Well, he saw the merchant lying there all battered and bloody—so he went »jer and gave him first-aid treatment and sent in a call for an 'ambulance...
...Tanks run from $27,000 to $67,000...
...J, jKjlfiB.ig an answer to this, I would like to hear it...
...William McCleery will edit Marshall Field's new paper, Parade...
...stn to goad Samaritans and good preachers...
...of Christianity itself...
...1,500,000,000 for other army and navy equipment...
...Activity of Native Pro-Nazzis Makes Consul Ouster Futile Closing of the 24 German consulates, the German Library of Information, the German Railway and Tourist Agencies and the Transocean News Service^will only hamper slightly the espionage and propaganda activities of the German government in this country...
...government economists feel that this current business is being borrowed from 1942...
...He plans no * undercover moves against the left-wing bloc in CfO...
...The presidential order ousts 121 German nationals...
...7,200,000,000 for guns, powder and munitions...
...Socially they were far away from high-class Pharisees as Brother Muste is from JaV 'Poles or the Csechoslovakians...
...AND now out to the glamor coast where some of the lade are ¦"still faint over Dorothy Parkers sudden switch to all-out aid to Britain...
...Whenever the President chooses to move rapidly he can—under his emergency powers—send sections of the Army and Navy to other continents...
...As a hedge against •high e'r prices, however, many more gardens have been planted this year than last...
...Recently it was merely collecting news in this country...
...He stuck to jBod Boy Scout work...
...Only two weeks ago the Boston Christian Front cooperated with the consulate by showing the Nazi propaganda film "Victory in the West" to its members at a Front meeting in Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury, Mass...
...Food supplies in suburban and small rural villages are plentiful...
...But the split is coming anyway...
...No matter what -we may think of Mr...
...The biggest play is being given to Victory in the West, the same picture which was shown to foreign diplomats as Blitzkrieg im Westen, to soften them up...
...And there are 124 such guns in the fleet with more scheduled for the two-ocean navy...
...These pictures are well received...
...and a submarine $6,000,00...
...Army will get...
...According to government statistics the Army has more than four times as many light tanks on hand as it did in July, 1940...
...The U.S...
...It is now paying for the picket line around tbe ^Vhite-House...
...They called the Guild secretary for permission to go out to lunch, knowing that if they crossed the picket line tbey^,would be up on charges again...
...Hard a* it is for some labor circles to believe, especially those who know Murray personally, he has made his compromise with the comrades...
...Over in the comer two 7m:jK|if\-m>erf debating their neuiraUby status, apparently ready toSWStgxe themselves belligerent in Woltman s favor...
...In many cities, locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators are planning to enact legislation forbidding members of its union to project Reich-made films before audiences in this country...
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