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Regardless of what TIME says, President Roosevelt is doing a splendid, bang-up job of leading this country in the most crucial period of American history...
Everyone seems determined to see us off in a blaze of glory. Or maybe they know where we're going, and feel sorry for us! The Business School gave a bang-up dance for the WAVES this past Saturday night. It was very gay with much music, much punch, and much men! It was interesting to note that gray suits are being worn this season--we had almost forgotten! But the boys are a lot more self-conscious about their civilian suits than we are. We know they're doing what they were ordered to do. The most often heard...
...some point not precisely discernible, MacArthur's star began to rise again. His airmen were able to do a bang-up job, flying men and supplies over the Owen Stanley range to his troops on New Guinea. The campaign for Papua succeeded. Lieut. General George C. Kenney, MacArthur's air-force commander, acquired a deep respect for him. His men just behind the New Guinea lines saw him in person (see cut). Upon combined ground and air power, he formulated a doctrine of Pacific offense: "A new form of campaign was tested . . . the offensive and defensive power...
Much as it would seem to indicate a hurried action on the part of Hollywood moguls to capitalize on the recent interest in Morocca, through the efforts of the stars and bang-up plot, the picture holds a good deal of entertainment value. Mumphrey Bograt at the callous, but secretly sentimental tough guy finally becomes a martyred lover. As for Miss Bergman, she makes every other publicity photo out of Hollywood blush for shame...
...each category (e.g., four officers, $30,250; four publicity workers, $8,854; seven researchers, $11,473). Biggest single expense item, besides the $179,200 "tax" paid to C.I.O., was $70,999 for Steel Labor (U.S.A.'s monthly). Most revealing insight into what it costs to run a bang-up union: $19,478.15 for "buttons, emblems and badges." > A separate table showed the expenses of each of U.S.A.'s 39 districts and four super-district offices. They were broken down into 16 categories so detailed as to give any management a clear picture of just what U.S.A. has been...