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Women workers are fading from the labor market in increasing numbers, reported OWI last week. This drift back home is due to production cutbacks and layoffs; many of the women discharged do not apply for other available jobs. The chief reasons...
...Cherbourg poules gestured to G-5 men: "The people will slit our throats like this-zippp-" Someone suggested a nunnery; the poules hooted. Then G-5 stopped fooling, dumped them in a stockade for unsavory characters, hoped that the harsh conditions there would persuade them to drift back one by one into the forgetful demimonde...
...gyro device can only hold the bomb on a single compass heading. Winds may drift it miles to one side; headwinds may bring it down miles short. The chance of hitting a good military target is good only because there are a lot of military targets in southern England...
Perhaps in the early days of the epic the original company had the ability to present some sort of social message. But the present conglomeration does little more than drift from one vaguely funny bit of profanity to the next. If there is any vestige of significance in the play at all, it is destroyed by a cast that neither understands what the author was trying to get at, nor tries in any way to say anything important...
...Stung by public criticism at the time of Welles's resignation, Hull decided that the U.S. must have an independent foreign policy directed by the State Department and not simply drift along on decisions made at personal meetings of Franklin and Winston. Through the winter this pursuit of an independent policy has resulted in some strain between the U.S. and Britain, much fear that economic and political rivalry would set them against each other when war ends. By the time of Stettinius' trip, strains had already become apparent over Arabian oil, recognition of De Gaulle, Italian policy, attitude...