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This week the Truman Committee reported to U.S. taxpayers that the man-hours, materials and money already spent on Canol have been an "inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
...British and French] can use their own public opinion to pave the way to a deal with the aggressors." Aug. 10 - A French-British military mis sion arrived in Russia. The talks got no where. Marshal Voroshilov later said the Russians had argued that to be able to give effective aid the Red Army would have to enter Polish territory. He said the Anglo-French mission did not agree, that the Polish Government refused to accept military assistance from Russia...
...method involves the ticklish business of getting a needle into the caudal canal through a puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...
...after tangling with censorship in Boston, where the show's locale was hastily changed from a Martinique bordello to a gambling casino. In Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line of tedium...