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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your copy, with two sets of answer-blanks and a sheet giving the right answers, just drop a note to TIME (Current Affairs Test), 330 East 22nd Street, Chicago...
...destiny in 1936, when he was assigned to the Philippines as General Douglas MacArthur's plans and operations officer. On MacArthur's staff was Lieut. Colonel Dwight Eisenhower, rated one of the brightest of the Army's brighter young men. Eisenhower, too, made a note of Hodges as a man who knew how to get things done...
...LaGuardia: "I understand Pearson is to be named a Lithuanian count." Later he snapped at newsmen: "Don't ask silly questions." And even after President Roosevelt hinted that there might soon be a new assignment for him, the little mayor kept mum. He sent Manhattan newsmen a curt note: "I have an assignment with my dentist." Leaving City Hall that night, he rudely barked: "I'm going to clean up the streets tonight; I'm good at that...
Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
Gloomiest note: even with the best of luck, next year the attrition rate will rise to 2,000,000 cars...