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From Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, Pratt found few secrets that censorship had kept from Germany or Japan, "but [it] succeeded beautifully in concealing the name of the commander who asked for reinforcements to quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...
...underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...
...facts rolled in, too late to quell the clamor, it seemed that General Morgan 1) had spoken, in somewhat exaggerating fashion, the truth; 2) he had not talked, as first newspaper accounts implied, in anti-Semitic fashion. General Morgan was said to be out-but at week's end, he was still...
Crack passenger trains limped into terminals as much as 20 hours late. In Chicago's Dearborn station, some 15,000 civilians stampeded to get aboard trains, lost shoes and baggage in the struggle. City and military police were called on the double-quick to quell the riot. The New York Central Railroad stopped the sale of all tickets on trains eastbound from Chicago. In Washington's Union Station, "recesses" were called for hour periods to help clear the jampacked station. All over, passengers missed connections, had no choice but to camp in stations...
...Legend. Win or lose, the most interesting candidate was a stern, greying airman of 49, Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. He helped start three revolts, quell a fourth, was already a hero to Brazilians. As a fierce young idealist in an abortive revolt of 1922, he had been one of the Dezoito do Forte, 18 irreconcilables who had preferred death on Copacabana's bloody beach to surrender. Badly wounded, Gomes and two others survived. He fought again in the São Paulo rebellion of 1924. In 1930 he marched to power as one of Getulio Vargas' "young lieutenants...