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...abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...
...Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...equipment: a tommy gun slung across his back, two revolvers (he does not trust automatics) snugged by their horsehide lanyards to his long legs, grenades bulging his pockets and haversack. The little Scouts knew this was no showcase equipment. Bataan's One-Man Army, who brags a heap but always makes good, is officially credited by his regimental commander with killing at least 80 Japs singlehanded. Flamboyant Captain Wermuth, who often works alone, claims 116. His men do not question his count...
Since his expanded Ph.D. thesis appeared in book form as "The Road to Reunion" and won him the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in history, Professor Buck has sat securely on the top of the American history heap. And although he does spend his summers on the Cape and has done the major part of his studying in Cambridge, he could never be called a New Englander. Born in Columbus, Ohio and attending Ohio State in his home town, Buck, after deciding not to be a biologist, has traveled periodically through the South and spent a year in Europe on a Sheldon...
...board's chairman, William Hammatt Davis, was not ready for the scrap heap, either. Despite the bazoos blown at him by various critics, the chunky, tenacious mediator had made a phenomenal record by peaceably unraveling the most tangled wrangles. With his belief that reasonable men in reasonable discussion can always find a way out, Mr. Davis was one of the brightest hopes the U.S. had in the murky field of industrial disputes. When the new mediation machinery was set up, observers felt reasonably sure that Mr. Davis would have his hand on the throttle...