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...Soldier's Return. Last week, on the flag bridge of the 10,000-ton, 614-ft. light cruiser Nashville, stood a proud, erect figure in freshly pressed khaki. Douglas MacArthur had come back to the Philip pines, as he had promised...
...after a month's battering, Canadians, British, Indians and Greeks of the Eighth Army broke the Gothic Line at its Adriatic end. There in heavy rain they had taken Rimini, where modern Italians bathed on hot summer days. Now it was a dismal memory of a town; (still erect were the gallows where partisans were hanged the week-before), opening the way into the flat plains behind the Gothic Line...
...died in it. This Sunday, Oct. 1, as he had on nearly every anniversary for 34 years, he planned to repair to the Hollywood Cemetery with Times employes and relatives of the dead men for the annual memorial service. There, sitting tall and erect on his usual folding chair, gazing solemnly at the big memorial monument, he would have heard the Rev. W. Whitcomb Brougher begin his customary prayer: "Oh Lord, we thank Thee for the Times, which through all the years has championed the right to work...
...erect, white-haired Chicagoan has long campaigned for open competitive bidding for securities in the railroad and utility fields, in place of the traditional, privately negotiated deals. Last week the syndicate headed by Halsey, Stuart plunked down the winning bid for the largest issue of railroad securities ever offered by competitive bidding-Great Northern Railway's $100,000,000 in refunding bonds (TIME, Sept...
...Every individual householder, businessman, farmer, or local government should be ready, the moment labor and materials are available, to erect new buildings and make repairs, thus providing additional jobs," Professor Copeland suggested...