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...They conserved their power. They sent medium tanks, among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
...home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When a woman shouted "five ore" (U.S. equivalent: one cent), another, to pacify the auctioneer, bid one crown (about 25?), won the edition and promptly mailed it back to its author...
Backed by a blunt Naval edict, West Coast shipyards began summarily discharging loafers last week, asked draft boards to speed their induction into the Army, sent their names to U.S. Employment Service for the blacklist...
...private luncheon at the Army and Navy Club, blunt Henry Kaiser outshouted Airt Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold and tough Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, when they challenged his ability to produce. He had found an unexpected ally in ubiquitous Harold Ickes, who suggested that the Bureau to Mines might help find some untapped mineral resources. Then Donald Nelson, acting tougher than Washington had ever seen him, took Kaiser's proposal to the White House, convinced Frankling Roosevelt in one session that the man who had shown shipbuilders how to build ships should be allowed...
Robert Porter Patterson, 51, a blunt, monkish onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also...