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...with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most of the city's three-decker tenements, but struck full on a housing project area in suburban Great Brook Valley. There, the brick walls of apartments stood solidly, but roofs were ripped off. Frame houses were reduced to piles of splintered rubbish, or so scattered that only a few recognizable fragments could be found. Before morning...
...ranking pointer was Lieut. General George H. Decker, the Army's comptroller. On Sept. 27, 1950, said Decker, George Catlett Marshall (who had been Secretary of Defense for just six days) issued an order: "In preparation of budget estimates ... it will be assumed that . . . combat operations in Korea will be concluded by 30 June, 1951 . . ." From then on, the Defense Department always made its plans-for ammunition and everything else-on the assumption that the Korean war would be over within the fiscal year. During his term of office, Lovett reissued the Marshall directive with appropriate changes of dates...
...General Decker tried to calm Byrd down. Secretary Marshall, he said, was working on certain ground rules laid down by the joint chiefs. And what were the ground rules? The joint chiefs, said General Decker, instead of planning how to win the Korean war, were trying to equalize the positions of the three services-so one would not be mobilized to a greater degree than another. At his winter home in Pinehurst, N.C., tired old (72) George Marshall recalled that his order "was based on the definite recommendations of the Chiefs of Staff, as presented to me by the chairman...
Asked Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper: "Is it a fair statement to say these policy directives at the very outset almost inevitably led to the ammunition shortage?" Replied Decker: "I would say that's a fair statement...
Superintendent Decker pleaded with the state legislature to consolidate Nebraska's inefficient hodgepodge of 6,466 school districts, but he doubted that the legislature would succeed. As far back as 1902, school officials tried to get a redistricting bill passed; they tried again in 1919, again in 1949. Each time the powerful farm bloc refused to budge. Its main objections: larger schools, taking in larger districts and more pupils, may, in some cases...