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...advertising man, returned from the Pacific air war to the firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Copywriter Caldwell offered some advice: "If you're to regard the ten million men in the services ... as future customers, it is important not to get their backs...
...Batten down the hatch
...agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2½?-a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak...
Yank will have an official chaperon in Lieut. Colonel Egbert White, former vice president of the big ad agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, ex-staffman of Stars & Stripes...
Brooke, chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff; with the heads of every British military service (including the invasion-trained Commandos' Lord Louis Mount-batten); and with Major General Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, the Prime Minister's military Man Friday...