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...This failure of leadership ran higher than the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growled a Seattle lumberman: "As long as Harry does things as usual, then everybody else will do things as usual. Harry said there is no war on, so who's excited enough to go volunteer to chop down a tree for an Army barracks? Nobody, that...
...morning, gets all the out-of-town shorts and headline news stories he can use during the seven-hour run. Under most setups, he can find out what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked out the day's ration...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
...allies can withdraw to Japan whatever they can save from Korea, and continue to fight a declared or undeclared war against Communist China. To do so, the U.S. would concentrate on using its predominant air and sea power to blockade China's vulnerable coastline, chop up its railroads and industries. China's Red bosses, whose power over the people is none too secure, will dread a long war with the U.S., fought on terms which the U.S. is able to dictate...
Having spent four years persuading the American woman to chop her hair close to the scalp, the capricious rulers of fashion (familiarly known as They) were now insisting, of course, that hair had to be longer...