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...Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...argued compulsory saving pro & con. Eleanor Roosevelt trial-ballooned a scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
Girls, he revealed, will be recruited on the same basis as men, but will be given household tasks and some of the lighter farm work. Men, of course, will do the heavier jobs, such as haying, threshing and splitting wood...
...week's end the Home Office, the Board of Trade, the Food Ministry and Treasury were sufficiently alarmed to order more policemen to trail the blacketeers, to impose heavier jail sentences and to circularize magistrates with examples of inadequate penalties. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison was asked whether the Cabinet would consider a bill authorizing the cat (flogging) for serious offenses. Replied Mr. Morrison: "We hope to find some more effective methods . . . than one which, experience has suggested, might be more effective at provoking controversy than deterring crimes...
...gazed piteously at his hands, so white, so unblemished; hands which had held nothing heavier than a pen since they had passed out of the rattle stage. He felt his biceps, and it suddenly occurred to him that those arm muscles had never exerted themselves more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...