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Line Upon Line, All Over Britain, War Workers Are Waiting For The Next Bus. With these bannerlines, Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express opened war against a Government order reducing the number of busses on London lines...
Yale University now boasts of two newspapers to cover the news of the various training units in New Haven. Most impressive was the Beaver which publishes all the man-bites dog events that occur in the Technical School, AAFTTC. Appearing weekly, the paper is written by the military personnel of the school with Sgt. J. G. Blumberg as editor. The free distribution of the weekly is made possible by funds allotted by the Post Exchange...
...years before Munich Sir Walter Citrine, beaver-eyed, baby-faced boss of the British trade unions, was called a Red-hater. He visited the Soviet Union in 1935, wrote a chilly book called I Search for Truth in Russia. Late in 1941, when the Germans were pressing against the western suburbs and the U.S. was not yet in the war, Sir Walter went again to Moscow. He went with a smile, but his hosts remembered and they were chilly. Back in London, he found the faces of the resisting Russians unforgettable. He wrote of the heroic Red Army, the magnificent...
...Littlefork, Minn., a lunchroom last week regaled diners with a new delicacy -beaverburgers (made from beaver). U.S. citizens were eating horse, rabbit and squirrel in quantities worthy of note. And last week the Department of Interior announced that there would soon reappear on U.S. dinner tables, for the first time since World War I, a more substantial addition to the nation's meat supply: whale meat...
...Beaver's agitation-which his friend Winston Churchill terms "a process of emphatic stimulation"-was not as significant as its reception. Lord Trenchard criticized Lord Beaverbrook for arousing the British people, who could not be told the true facts just now. The Earl of Listowel accused the Beaver of doing "a positive disservice to the country" by bringing the matter up at this juncture. Viscount Simon said that the discussion was "absolutely dangerous," called the term second front a "catchpenny phrase," based on ill-informed clamor...