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...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...
...after a year of coaching at Dartmouth, Brown is coming back to plague the Crimson once more. This time he is bringing a powerful gridiron squad from the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy with him; the call of war finally caught up with him and drafted him into the coaching job at the Long Island base...
...letter pointedly asked if the delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The soldier editors ap pealed to Washington newspapermen to search out "the truth...
...production is up to 134,000 tons monthly, from a low of 40,000 tons just after liberation. Like plasma in a wounded body, the increase in coal is making itself felt in chemicals, metals, textiles and other basic industries. Railways now carry 65% of their prewar tonnage. The merchant marine (partly salvaged) is halfway back. A symbol is the rebuilding of Oradour-sur-Glane, the Lidice of France. Once again, amid the rubble marked simply "REMEMBER," the little town has its mairie, school, post office, shoemaker and bakery...
...heavy to beat the grey-haired, wide-eyed New Dealer. The argument: he was hooked up to C.I.O., hence would be influenced in decisions on wages and labor problems. Said Louisiana's paunchy John H. Overton, who led the fight against confirmation: "Our merchant marine is resting now on a powder keg because of the antagonism between the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. I don't want to light the fuse." Said Illinois' Scott Lucas, leading the fight for the Administration, "the basic reason [for the opposition] was that Mr. McKeough went out to work...