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...Vine Street Brown Derby, greeting soldiers (especially privates) with: "Hi ya, soldier! My name's Dinah. What's yours?" "Once I get them and they get me," she says, "we have a wonderful time." She has stopped her car to sing her head off to a one-man sentry in the desert...
...across the precipitous Owen Stanley Mountain Range, the Japanese were only 32 miles from vital Port Moresby. Some uneasy observers began to believe the unpredictable Japs might try to take well-defended Port Moresby by land, using only the troops and supplies that could be hauled along the "impassable" one-man jungle-&-mountain path. It would be an audacious gesture, but Australian troops had already had a bitter taste of Jap audacity in the milder jungles of Malaya (where 17,000 Australians were taken prisoner...
Utopia. In Truro, Mass., the town selectmen lost David Francis, the one-man police department, to the Coast Guard, decided he had been a luxury, decided not to replace...
...Ellis Arnall is now Georgia's boy hope as well as its boy wonder. He has promised to end the Talmadge-fostered laws which give Georgia a one-man Government, has promised to restore the university system to accredited lists. And when he was assured of election last week he made a statement which warmed his voters' hearts: "I now call on all Georgians regardless of political affiliation, to help us in our endeavor, so that Georgia may no longer be the laughing stock of the nation...
Best example of how the chains set compliance standards is in food retailing, where the U.S. has some 600,000 outlets, ranging from carload-lot supermarkets to one-man neighborhood shops. Only 40,000 (7%) of these outlets are owned by chains (A. & P., Safeway, Kroger, etc.), but they do a potent 33% of the business. The five largest chains alone, with about half the chain outlets, handle two-thirds of the chain volume. This, says the Department of Justice, means that "the food chains are in a position to dominate the food industry." If that...