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...Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from the Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there...
...Detroit thousands of trailer dwellers had to fetch oil in small cans from emergency stations. A critical oil shortage was on, but an oil-company official found that only one out of every 3,000 oil furnaces had been converted to coal...
Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...
Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...
Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...