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...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 to replace those which the mouse had contaminated...
Shirt Sleeves. There is nothing of the big business tycoon about Roy Grumman in his office. As soon as he gets there, he takes off his coat. Then he props his feet on the desk or an open drawer, puts a pipe or cigar in his mouth, and is ready to make all the Hellcats the Navy needs...
...boxed and stored. He would carry the process one step further, use standard card-catalogue cases, simply microprint each book on the back of its card. There would be no writing out of slips, no waiting for books to be brought from the stacks. An average library file drawer containing 2,300 cards, estimates Rider, would hold as many "books" as 168 ft. of shelves. It is already possible, he reports, to microprint 250 book pages on one side of a 3 in. by 5 in. card. He asserts that this number can soon be doubled...
...discussion stage is a kitchenless house. The food department, concealed in the living room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...
These losses brought to 21 the total of German brass hats (20 generals, one admiral) killed or captured since June 6. Germany was losing manpower out of the top drawer as well as the bottom...