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...Delhi, Brereton deposited Baby with Lloyds Bank, took one drink, put his gun in a desk drawer, and paused to ponder his asset: the cash; faith in Washington; faith in his own judgment that a mighty air striking force could be amassed in India. A few days later, 17 officers and men followed him to India in a PBY flying boat. They were the nucleus of his staff...
Admired and respected by officers and enlisted men in World War I, Fred Searls has long been recognized as not only "top drawer" (vice president and director of Newmont Mining Corp.) but one of the world's outstanding mining engineers with exceptional knowledge of practical as well as economic matters, also one who gets things done-quickly and well...
Today Bachelor Kartveli, like other top-drawer ideamen in aviation, is busy about next year's design. But sometimes he goes out on the field to watch his 2,000-h.p. (Pratt & Whitney) Thunderbolt in the air. He's proud of the beast. "A nice plane," he admits, in an accent tinged with French, rather than Russian. "But she's too big." Airmen who fly the beast could argue with him, but they don't. They know it's an esthete's criticism...
...Navy's high command cleared its decks for offensive action this week. A shake-up in the top drawer put an airman alone at the top. It also finally put the U.S. fleets under the command of the Navy's toughest "sundowners" and one of the most offensive-minded officers...
...probably not a coincidence that Japan's commanders in the southern drive -Yamashita, Doihara, Honma, Terauchi -are from the next-to-top military drawer. Still neatly folded away in the very top drawer are Japan's very best-Itagaki, Sugiyama, Nishio. They may be in reserve for the crucial attack on Russia...