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Reading his brief speech from a little leather folder, Harry Truman pledged his administration "to carry forward the underlying principles and policies, foreign and domestic, of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The biggest ovation was for Eleanor Roosevelt when she turned over the Big House, where Roosevelts had lived for some 80 years, to the people of the U.S. as a national shrine...
...files of the Luftwaffe seized at Berchtesgaden one of the "confidential" papers carefully stored away in a folder of its own was Bob Chapin's TIME map of "The Big Push...
...beyond the road to a cramped, three-man office he took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
...optimist of the week is Ned Bailey who now has a pigskin folder engraved in gold with words "Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Navy." Of course, the little slip of paper to fill the folder is still missing; and Ned hastens to explain that he's not really eager to leave "The Bog" or Boston for home but semper paratus...
...This year the U.S. will produce 460 billion matches (475 billion in 1944), using its own chlorate of potash instead of importing it, as before the war. But, practically, there is a shortage. Reason: the military has taken all the safety (penny-box) matches, and 35% of the paper-folder kind. U.S. civilians get what is left...