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...these first great steps to shift the U.S. from a two-front war to a one-front war did mean that, as war contracts are canceled, the manpower and materials freed will be shunted into civilian plants with a minimum of red tape. WPB still held up the go-ahead for the making of autos, refrigerators and washing machines...
...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...
...Gave the go-ahead to professional baseball...
...fast and full communique on the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a model of its kind, is the most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller's go-ahead stems from the fight of press-conscious Navy Secretary James Forrestal (a -spectator at Iwo Jima last week) to loosen the tongues of the Navy's tight-lipped top admirals. Secretary Forrestal has made it plain that the Navy must make friends with its employer, the U.S. people...
Several weeks later, Reasoner was ordered to Paris. Coldly he was told that his message had been the go-ahead for the advertising posters; that he faced possible court-martial.* Instead, Reasoner's punishment was reassignment-not in the European Theater. Last week, while he was in London awaiting transportation to a new assignment. Reasoner lost $140 in cash, had his kitbag stolen and learned that the dog he left in London had gone off with somebody named Jerry. Said Reasoner: "I'm just an eight-ball...