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...answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something away. The difference...
...Goebbels has banned Germany's biggest recent song hit, Es Geht Alles Vorüber (It'll All Be Over Some Day). Citizens made up new lyrics in which they comforted themselves that what would be over some day was Hitler and his Party...
...last war, which he finished as a captain in the transport corps. He had served with the French Army as a member of the American Field Service from June to October, 1917, when he enlisted in the American forces as a private. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant Novem- ber 15 and a Captain in July, 1918. During the fighting of October 6-20, 1918 he won the Croix de Guerre for bravery. He returned to this country in April...
...Francisco military area as dangerous to security-the first such action against white citizens. The wonder was that it was not done earlier: everybody heard about the goings on in the North Beach Italian colony. Fascists there used to say RoBerTo as a greeting-Ro for Rome, Ber for Berlin, To for Tokyo. Italy sent teachers, books and medals for the Italian schools. Mussolini won a popularity contest hands down over Franklin Roosevelt...
Four times as many motor trucks can be shipped to U.S. armed forces in Australia as are now being shipped, in the same num-ber of vessels. This result could be achieved by shipping the trucks "CKD" (completely knocked down) instead of to the Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers...