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...North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...
...Major General Frederick L. Martin, boss of the ground-bound Army Air Force on Oahu, now retired because of chronic gastric ulcers and increasing deafness, plays golf and listens to phonograph records in West Los Angeles, Calif. General Martin declared: "There's an awful lot that hasn't been told...
...union-authorized coal strikes were the most serious. In general the U.S. merely went on suffering from its apparently chronic rash of brief wildcat walkouts. At the huge Willow Run Liberator bomber plant, 2,000 key workers walked out one day, walked back in the next; they had entirely stalled production for more than 24 hours. In Chicago 600 employes at the Dodge plant, which makes 6-29 Superfortress engines, struck for three days, scurried back to work after a wounded Army private had pleaded with them. In Bessemer, Ala., male welders in the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. went...
When he is concentrating on something, which is often, Crerar clears his throat with a series of rasping half-coughs. This habit has convinced him that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops...
...open controversies . . . have been so frequent and chronic as to point beyond the particular individuals ... to administrative failures on the part of the President himself. It will generally be found that he has either failed to appoint the right man to a key position; or failed to delegate sufficient power for the task ostensibly assigned; or failed to make clear to each official from the beginning precisely where his own power and responsibility began and ended; or failed to prevent duplication and conflict of powers; or failed to support an official fully . . .; or failed to discipline or remove an official...