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...plight on the war. They had bungled. They had never made up their minds whether they should give priority to housing or to food production. They had disastrously overestimated Britain's ability to export, underestimated her need for dollars. They had concentrated on their pet nationalization schemes instead of all-out production. They had fulfilled the long-standing Socialist promises of higher pay and shorter hours at a time when production costs needed to be lowered and workers needed to work harder...
...your outfit have been ordered to Heaven as part of an all-out Allied Offensive against the Devil. You're going to meet a people who like Americans and whom you will like. The Angels have much in common with us; they are virtuous, peace-loving, God-fearing people, and they're out to lick the Devil...
Congressmen who had been thundering, for an all-out purge of radicals in the State Department (see above) could point to a good example of what they meant and what to do about it. Carl Aldo Marzani, onetime OSS staffer, later a $7,175-a-year State Department economist, had been convicted of fraud against the Government for concealing his Communist Party membership. Last week in Washington, Marzani, born in Italy, educated at Williams College and Oxford, was sentenced by a federal judge to one to three years in prison...
...blue-eyed, dark-haired, happy-go-lucky Irish-American, had plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with his favorite vehicle: the motorcycle. As a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance group for a tank battalion, his job was motorcycle reconnaissance ahead of the armor. It was an all-out job with an understandably final objective. "If we came back," says Dailey, "they knew they could advance...
...Asked farmers to continue their "all-out effort" toward greater food production...