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...crossed two more ridges to reach Efogi (see map, p, 34), but still no Japs. Nearing the gap. the Aussies made "light contact" with Jap patrols, but where and when the battle of the Owen Stanley Mountains would be joined, nobody knew. The Australians crept forward more cautiously, lest they fall into a Jap trap...
...dance numbers. The players go, perforce, through the motions of a lightweight story involving Mature's mink-coated overtures to Betty Grable, the feminine lead of a musical in which he stars. She is married to Mature's sparring partner in the show, but keeps it a secret lest Mature leave the show flat. While the players struggle manfully with the complications this deception causes, several quite bearable dance routines and tunes are introduced. Sparked by Mature as the egocentric fighter, "Footlight Serenade" is altogether a pleasant little show...
...occasion when TIME has discovered a plant turning out more than its schedule of production, the plant management has earnestly asked not to have the fact published lest their materials supply be reduced...
...Children's Bureau estimated that twice as many boys & girls between 14 and 18 went to work in 1941 as in 1940 (the Bureau gave work certificates to 500,000), said the number mounted rapidly in 1942. Bureau Head Katharine F. Lenroot was plainly worried lest the exodus from school be too great...
Economically, the idea is wholly, sound, but politically considerations, may swamp it. Business men, concerned lest such concentration destroy the "good-will" value of their trade-marks and ruin the competitive position of the "squeezed-out" firms in trading after the war, are opposing the program as strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position...