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...resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command it when victory was in sight. Or perhaps it was just that hard-bitten Claire Chennault was not diplomatic enough to fit in any more...
...Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry, flea-bitten and malaria-ridden but still on its feet and walking...
...column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree that ex-Chicago Trib-uneman Boettiger put out a good paper...
...interest was aroused when he noticed how many people came in to Johns Hopkins Hospital to be treated for rat bites. There were 87 in four years, most of them from the two-square-mile area surrounding the hospital, and Dr. Richter heard of 28 others who were bitten but did not come for treatment. Most of those bitten were babies under a year old. "One child was bitten on eleven different nights...
...thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...