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...from Butch. First of these returns from the front was brought in by the Navy's "Butch" O'Hare. What the Navy needed, he told Grumman men, was a fighter aircraft that could outclimb and outmaneuver a Zero, carry more .50-caliber guns than the Wildcat (four), lug a decent load of armor, and range farther than any Navy fighter had ever ranged before...
...circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn. There last week he concluded he had made a mistake in letting little Annie lug his private political banner. Said he: "The Syndicate has a hard & fast rule against editorializing. I shouldn't have done...
...when crop-haired, electric Major General Harold Lee George of the U.S. Army looks at his Air Transport Command, it is the whole world he sees. At some of his bases camels lug in the fuel for U.S. transports; at others, sledge dogs; at others, Chinese coolies or Untouchables. Seeing what he sees, he can and does say that "to place any limitations on air transport at all would be to deny progress...
...production. A housing shortage forced some workers to live in tents, shacks and trailers. There was tragic, dirty confusion: in Macomb County, just north of the city, newly laid water mains were torn up to supply another area. Some 300 families of defense workers were forced to lug their water, some as far as three miles, from a public hydrant...
...convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...