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Gleaming white in peacetime paint, the Army transport Thomas H. Barry eased out from Manhattan's Pier 84, nosed down the Hudson to the sea. Aboard her, goggly with excitement, 349 Army wives & children milled through the maze of corridors and companionways, clustered on deck for photographers, clung to the rail with last, fluttering farewells. The first contingent of service families was off to join the occupation forces in Europe...
...Follette-Monroney report strikes hard at the difficulty of placing responsibility for governmental policy. Congressmen loudly wail that the function of policy formulation has slipped through their fingers and has been lost in the intricate maze of the executive department. The reasons for this sapping of legislative authority can be found in the anachronistic organization of Congress itself...
...exact position of any one man through the maze of reorganization endured by the Office of Scientific Research and Development and its atomic-energy division, the National Defense Research Committee, would require charts, slide-rules and an intimate knowledge of Washington whimsy. In the case of the men behind the bomb, such a study would only give the diagrammatic relation of man to man and department to subdivision. It would not, for instance, lend itself to an accurate appraisal of Conant's utility as talent scout and supervisor of this talent in the wide area taken in by the Manhattan...
...various coast cities, e.g., Monday to Los Angeles, Tuesday to San Francisco, or through cars attached to regular trains. In either case, the through train, or the cars, will pull into one Chicago terminal, then be shunted to a western road by way of Chicago's complicated maze of belt lines and yards. Fastest time for the cross-country trip will be cut from 67 hours to 59 hours...
...pattered like a not-quite-recuperated invalid treading on eggshells. While functionaries droned through tedious reports, Hirohito clasped and unclasped his hands, shifted from foot to foot, blinked and nodded. When it was all over, he sighed, "Ah so." Then His Majesty wandered like a scared mouse through the maze of plant wreckage. Before one of the workers, lined up to get their first imperial glimpse, he paused nervously. "How long have you been working here?" "Fifteen years." "Ah so," said the Emperor. "So desu" ("That is so"), snapped the worker with finality. Following chalk marks, Hirohito approached an aged...