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An embarrassing phase of postwar surplus disposal was well under way last week. By year's end, said the Army, about 500 generals will be retired from service or reduced to subastral rank. From the war's constellation of 1,540 generals, about 1,000 will be shaken...
Spick & Span. The U.S. Army has almost stopped buying soap. It has more than enough for its needs, plans to sell the surplus. Among items up for disposal: 19,851,000 cakes of toilet soap; 1,345,000 Ibs. of soap chips; 1,588,000 tubes of shaving cream.
-" Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value...
Endeavoring to keep pace with all the latest developments in atomic energy, the Harvard Corporation has placed $425,000 at the disposal of a newly-created committee on nuclear physics and chemistry. To Dean Buck was given the five year chairmanship of the projected group. The other members have not...
Stepchild. From now on the sale of surplus consumer goods will be made through the War Assets Corp., a Reconstruction Finance Corp. subsidiary. The shift, from the Department of Commerce, was made at the request of Henry Agard Wallace. Thus he neatly sidestepped the storm over bungling in the disposal...