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Because police and FBI agents kept mum, nobody could say how many such robberies had taken place, whether they were the result of common criminal greed or systematic sabotage. But newsmen learned of two in Chicago, one in Cleveland, six in New York City. The monetary loss in these thefts was about $75,000 but the loss of badly needed tools was more important. In Washington, Advisory Defense Commissioner William Knudsen refused to worry: "I don't imagine you could steal enough to get us in any trouble, and, anyhow, we could make some more." But the new form...
...pickers smarted but kept mum. When World War II canceled the Ryder Cup matches, Sarazen's squawk went the way of most sport squawks. Last month, however, when P. G. A. bigwigs were looking for ways & means to raise money for the Red Cross, they remembered it, decided to call Sarazen's bluff...
...amateurs who supposed, as many do, that all they had to do was keep time with the orchestra got a quick awakening. If they omitted the conventional opening down beat of the baton, Sammy Kaye's men kept mum. The orchestra played exactly as fast or slow as the stick-waver indicated, however unintentionally. If a saxophone or trombone thought he saw a signal to come in, he did so regardless-with the result that periodically everything broke down...
Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...
...Roosevelt kept mum about what he learned by sending to Europe special war-investigating envoy...