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...also shies from publicity. He thinks that the war-production show is being run too much by junior executives while seniors spend the major part of their time making speeches, holding interviews, instead of tending to their knitting. He thinks publicity is treacherous. He does not want to get bitten...
...Philadelphia, Sun Oil Co., which had held out a helping hand to gas-rationed eastern-seaboard motorists, last week had it bitten off half way to the elbow...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...
...President appointed a military commission to try the saboteurs-and try them quickly. Headed by hard-bitten Major General Frank R. McCoy, a member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, the commission includes six other boot-tough generals. Prosecutors will be Attorney General Francis Biddle and the Army's Judge Advocate General Major General Myron C. Cramer. Two colonels will act as defense counsel. The commission will try the eight in secret, report immediately to the President...
...country bled white by five years of war are small. China's armies are in no condition to launch even local offensives. China has shown an unbelievable capacity for suffering that stands out in bold relief when it is seen how deeply seven months of defeats have bitten into the core of American and British morale in the Far East. But in the near future China's genius, her capacity for suffering, may not be enough...