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Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...
Lantern in hand, he stepped into the pitch-black barnyard, his breath frosted...
Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
...horses and mules are another matter. Government and farmers alike know they cannot return to the munching, nonmechanical drowse of yesterday's barnyard. The draft and the siphoning off of farm labor by defense industry will call for still more mechanized farming. But at Chicago the shortage of horses and farm machinery was something that farmers still refused to worry about. At this point only the Government was worried...
...Mixed Barnyard. Jerry Land's plans call for many another type of ship. On the Maritime Commission schedule are fast 17-knot tankers, whose speed is no great advantage in peacetime-tankers are seldom in a hurry-but vital in war, when the Navy doesn't want to wait for its fuel. Also scheduled are 195-ft. seagoing tugs, barges made of concrete, small boats of all varieties...