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...when burly, black-haired Julius Krug came back to head WPB his coming was like the arrival of a friend to attend the last rites. In this governmental frame of mind, the lid was pried off civilian production, ready to be thrown away when V-E day came tomorrow - or the day after...
Doctrine of "Abstention." This was certainly news, to the U.S. and the world -especially the "consistently." Along with Britain, the U.S. had been sitting on the Italian lid for 15 months, since the Italian armistice. Now the U.S. suddenly jumped off the lid. Two days later Ed Stettinius affirmed that the new policy applied also to Greece...
...directed by Dr. Jules Freund, 54, hygienist with the Austrian Army in World War I, and assistant professor of pathology at Cornell. The U.S. Army & Navy, hopeful that the discovery may lead to a vaccine which will lick World War II's No. 1 disease, have put the lid on the experiments, they will not allow the institute to reveal the kinds of animals immunized, or the kinds of malaria parasites-there are four-against which the animals were protected...
...days later Winston Churchill lifted the lid in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister gave a thumbnail sketch of V-2 in action, said that "casualties and damage have so far not been heavy" and that "the scale and effect of these attacks have not hitherto been significant...
...tabloid New York Daily News's "Presidential Battle Page," offering the Democratic and Republican parties equal campaign space in side-by-side columns, was a top feature. Three weeks ago the Daily News started the page again, as usual saying the lid was off, and asking only that combatants accompany libelous material with an indemnity bond. For 17 days the battle raged...