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SNAFU & FIFO. The War Department knew full well that the system would provoke plenty of G.I. gripes, home-front anguish and trouble for the Army. Congressmen's mail is already heavy with letters from kin demanding to know why Joe can't come home. Congressmen themselves, breathing the air of victory, are causing the Army anxiety with their new eagerness to move in on things...
...General was still around on D-plus-twelve, he must have seen something to pack his belly with anguish: a huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...
...overall, the movie does not come off. Wilde's novel was a fiercely arrogant if troubled fable about the conflict between the individualist and society, between ethics and esthetics. The film lacks almost entirely this basic tension; it lacks also the moral courage and anguish, the satiated melancholy and the intellectual intensity which pervaded...
...amazing unanimity: "I hope the Russians get to Berlin first. They'll know what to do with those Krauts!" Such sentiment indicates no slackening of G.I. will to fight. Rather it shows an appreciation of the tremendous human cost of beating Germany. In cold and mud and anguish the brotherhood of battle leaps across barriers of place and ideas...
...price rollbacks were greeted by cries of anguish from converters and garment manufacturers. But OPA stood firm, prepared to unlimber its big guns on the biggest evil of all in the textile price situation. OPA's target: the upgrading of cloth and garments by converters and by style experts who, by adding an extra print, or a fancy ruffle, have vaulted ceiling prices and upped their profits 800 to 1,400% since war began...