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...Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production of landing craft, of which the Navy wants 80,000 this year...
Then Lieut. Colonel Poletti began selling democracy to Italians. He saw all callers. In wrinkled uniform, slouched behind a huge desk, he listened to complaints, cracked jokes, gave out facts, usually ended interviews with a pep talk reminding Italians of their responsibilities and opportunities. Visitors were flattered by hearing their own language, by the deft touch...
Discharges for physical and psychoneurotic disabilities are still running in the thousands monthly. Battle casualties are running at the rate of around 15,000 a month, may be expected to increase radically when the Second Front is opened, despite the pep talk of Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley to his troops...
...would get down to work. No more horsing around. This is important, Vag old man. You're leaving Cambridge, for good. This is the end. Now don't get maudlin, but tell them what you feel. Everybody else did, and now its your turn. A self-inflicted pep talk was occasionaly effective, but the Vagabond just didn't seem to obe in the mood. Lots to say, but not in the mood. On the ball, boy. You get the big stripe tomorrow, and then it will be too late. It will all be over then...
Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army's pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students take overdoses. Benzedrine, a chemical relative of adrenalin, also may bring eyes back to normal after the use of oculists' drops, relieves hangovers, clears the brain of mental...