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...people of this country want only one new or different thing of their Government. That is truth-the kind of blunt, prompt, direct truth that shows that the Government has confidence in the people. The people will return that confidence in kind. There will be no strikes when the Government says "Don't" and means it. There will be no inflation, no griping at taxes, regardless of how high they are. There will be strong, confident faces where now you see only reflections of "what next?" Give us a Government that will say what it means and mean what...
...three weeks Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein tried to blunt the salient with the flesh of his men. Vatutin's army, grimy with the dust of the 350 miles it had covered since last October, beat off the desperate attacks. Last week the hour struck...
...result of the test, BuShips changed the lighters under construction to the Higgins design. But the 1942 Truman report was blunt in its chastisement: "It is clear that the Bureau of Ships has. for reasons known only to itself, stubbornly persisted for over five years in clinging to an unseaworthy tank-lighter design...
Navy Negligence. Reviewing its original findings last week, the Committee was even more blunt: ". . . the action of the Bureau officials entrusted with the tank-lighter program was attributable either to negligence or willful misconduct.'' The Committee made clear that "the mistakes referred to in its report . . . have been corrected; that with the exception of 126 Bureau-type lighters which the Bureau of Ships says it completed because the materials had already been cut and partially fabricated, no lighters of the Bureau type were manufactured; and that all manufacturers holding contracts for Bureau-type lighters were ordered to shift...
...scuttlebutt was busy weeks before blunt, soldierly Thomas Holcomb retired as Commandant of the Marine Corps, full of honors and the first four-star general in the history of the Corps. Rumor's net at that time (New Year's): General Holcomb was going to join the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff. This week the rumor was abandoned in favor of other and sounder information...