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...Landing Vehicle, Tracked), amphibious "Water Buffalo," 21 ft. long, 20-troop capacity, for storming swamps, coral reefs, otherwise inaccessible places...
From the 230,000-mile operating front a stream of despairing reports flowed. In Buffalo, Railroadman Arthur W. Conley said: "We have been maintaining efficiency only by working employes 70 and 80 and 90 hours a week, but the men are not going to be able to stand it much longer." And the ICC reports on the numerous train wrecks frequently attributed the blame to inexperienced personnel...
...relations comes from her exploits: she loves to put on overalls and hip boots to crawl into a subway tunnel or down an Adirondack iron mine 3,000 ft. But as regional War Manpower commissioner, she has done a first-rate job in New York. There she evolved the "Buffalo Plan" that became the national model for the manipulation of manpower shortages, from Connecticut to California (TIME, Sept. 27). She is an old hand at soft-soaping labor and management into agreements; a 1038 New Yorker profile said, "She is ... a kind of switchboard through which enemies can make connections...
...Polish Government in Exile (loudly denounced by the Soviet Union as fascist), they have worked behind the lines with Polish troops in the Middle East. When they arrived in New York last week they headed straight for a coiffeur, then shopped for stockings, cosmetics, lingerie. Next stop: Buffalo's Polish colony...
Professional football kicked off against its postwar problems last week and promptly called time out. The National Football League 1) accepted a $25,000 down payment on a franchise for Buffalo but delayed final approval; 2) returned a similar deposit from West Coast promoters (including Bing Crosby) with the message to come back after the war. The League will put eleven teams on the field this fall, including Boston's brand-new Yanks, Cleveland's reactivated Rams and two cannibalized from last season's Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Eagles...