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Occasionally John L.'s phone would jangle with news of another victory. Big John would dictate to a press aide a curt communique which concluded with a half-hopeful, half-commanding "More tonnage will sign." The press covered U.M.W. like a military HQ. Almost every night last week, U.M.W. was able to report to the newsmen that another company or two had agreed to boost pay (from $14.05 to $15 a day) and increase royalties for the miners' welfare fund (from 20? to 35? a ton). Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders...
...plea to General Hodges to spare the historic shrine, if at all possible, was transmitted down ... to HQ 4th Infantry Division, where ... a volunteer patrol was sent ... to the Nazi commander . . . and succeeded in arranging the German evacuation of the city, which fell the next day . . . without a shot being fired...
From Berlin's Gatow airfield to R.A.F.'s London headquarters last week went a cry for reinforcements to fight off saboteurs. Thousands of starlings flocking to Gatow were menacing the props of airlift planes. Airmen knew that HQ had just the weapons to handle them-a squadron of fierce falcons trained to keep Britain's airfields clear of gulls, plovers, rooks and other airborne pests...
...uniforms and bearskins of the Guard's Brigade. Snapped Tory M.P. Hugh Linstead in a letter to the Times next day: "Have we now reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated. Blimped the father of one subaltern: "Dammit, the Guards never run-nor do their uniforms...
...regarded even a regimental headquarters as a soft spot, may also find it hard to understand Allen when he writes: "Tailors and bootmakers in neighboring towns were deluged with rush orders for smart battle jackets and combat boots . . . high-geared action, hard-hitting competence, and breezy cockiness became HQ Third Army's fixed character and tempo. It moved, talked, and fought, fast, tough, and hard...