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...bong for each B-29 completed during the week. For the past month, Boeing workers, feeling fine about their output, have listened to the bell each Monday, slapped each other's backs. Boeing's Vice President J. E. Schaefer calls the weekly ceremony the "hottest morale booster we ever...
...TIME, Dec. 14, 1942, et seq.). In Cairo, where Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger filed the epic dispatch, once-hostile British censors passed a flood of encomiums to the Partisans, to their commander, Marshal Josip Broz ("Tito"), and to a party of Partisan officers who had come to Egypt. One booster even spread the report that Marshal Broz's favorite books are War & Peace and Pickwick Papers...
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan, main booster of General Douglas MacArthur for the GOPresidential nomination, last week wangled from the Army and Navy a special statement that no regulation forbids an officer's being elected to public office. This also cleared the track for Minnesota's Republican Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen...
...increase the birth rate of the nation. From an alltime low of 14.7 births per 1,000 population in 1932, the yardstick of the people's "birthjoy" climbed to 20.4 in 1939, sagged only immaterially to 18.8 in the first three years of war. Last September Nazi birthrate booster No. 1, rabbity Dr. Joseph Goebbels, was still able to praise the "fiery zeal" of German propagation...
...talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's most passionate booster, spent several weeks on a British warship before sitting down to write his story...