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...time GAO's fine-tooth comb has gone over so many billions, the Army is sure that many war contractors will be broke and many more severely hampered in achieving the main postwar objective of getting U.S. productive capacity swiftly converted to peacetime work. No amount of "savings" on specific overcharges would be worth that kind of loss, in the long...
...conditions is largely a matter of scale is revealed by Our Towns: A Close-Up. The insanitary state of the evacuated slum children was comparable to that of the Indian untouchables: about 20% of these children had head lice, especially the young ones and the older girls who never comb their hair in order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons. Bed-wetting was common. Since many of the children had never...
...gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The pianist took off. The congregation began to clap to. the beat. The clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist: "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims! Let me hear...
...early, some of the machines from being smashed. Hard-pressed to turn out more pilots quicker,* the Flying Command scheme is simple: teach the teachers. Throughout his huge, 56-station Southeast Training Command, Major General Ralph Royce has set up Advisory Training Boards (formerly called Flying Evaluation Boards) to comb over the instructors, re-educate them if necessary...
Some of the new divisions of 1942 have already been conceived, are close to birth. The process begins when the new division commander (a major general), his assistant and his artillery officer (both brigadiers) are selected. In the next week they must comb over the names of officers they know only from their records, to pick the general staff...