Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Guyer, Gaston and like-minded men & women throughout the land saw war move their goal closer. In Congress were a half-dozen bills to regulate alcohol traffic. One of them, a Senate resolution which would prohibit liquor sales in & around military establishments, could conceivably be used (by a Prohibitionist Secretary of War) to dry up whole areas of the nation...
...thing, the Empire was knitting itself closer together to fight the battle of democracy. Churchill had sent a long New Year's message to Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, and Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers were agitating for an Empire War Cabinet. The Daily Express editorialized: "Until we have made one united fighting machine out of the British Empire we can't expect to make one out of Britain and the United States...
Well, after all, he had been prepared for the war, hadn't he? The headlines and speeches and buttons and proclamations had brought it closer and closer; everybody had seen it coming. He might have known the vacations would change, like all else. He would have to change, too, would Vag; he'd develop a stern and realistic attitude and wear a V pin and make sacrifices, because everyone else was. What could he do to help--take a First Aid course maybe, or donate a pint of blood? Brrr! He didn't like the idea of a big, thick...
...bracing quality was paid by a Fort Logan soldier: "She has a sense of humor as sharp as jailhouse coffee." One of the most tender came to her from a boy at Fort Francis E. Warren, near Cheyenne, Wyo. Said he: "You couldn't seem any closer than you do coming into this big barracks room. Your voice is all sort of warm and sparkling. . . ." Most telling tribute of all came from Army Morale Officers who now send her daily announcements they want their men to remember...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...