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...South Koreans, who had seemed on the verge of collapse early in the war, continued to fight in a way that made the Americans glad to have them on their side. At ruined Pohang, on the east coast, they sent a force inland to attack the enemy in his rear, while other South Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called...
Last week, Major General J. K. Christmas, Army G-4 procurement chief, said that next year's military requirements would use no more than 6% of the 100-million-ton U.S. steel output. While that is about four times the steel sold last year for military use, Inland Steel Co.'s President Clarence Randall thought that the industry's 6,000,000-ton expansion program would take care of most military demands. Said he this week: "We can do the war job and still give the country as much [civilian] steel as it had altogether...
...named for his stint as Assistant Secretary of Commerce (1935-40), when he bossed the U.S. inland waterway system...
...jeeps hurried on past the dried river beds and bare hills of inland Korea -country that reminded Walker of his familiar territory of west Texas. Here & there along the road the general stopped. Sometimes he smiled and politely asked enlisted men for information, such as the location of regimental or battalion command posts. Occasionally he turned on his parade-ground voice in a blast of censure. A luckless 1st Cavalry shavetail...
Like Author Bissell, Bill Joyce had some fancy schooling and a well-to-do father. When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...