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...approved only two loans totaling $65,000. A major explanation of this picayune record may be the all-too-characteristic fact that, although the corporation was authorized by law in June, it did not get a head (Kansas City Little Businessman Lou Holland) until July, a headquarters (the Raleigh Hotel) until August, or an administrative order permitting it to employ a staff until September. Nonetheless the same trade sources that claim that 45,000 small manufacturers are fully equipped to handle war contracts they cannot land, also believe that not more than 15,000 will ever be able...
Lieut. Oscar Peatross of Raleigh, N.C. found his detachment in the Japs' rear. Three of his men were killed. Lieut. Peatross and the rest burned trucks, killed Jap couriers, destroyed a radio station, finally fought their way back to the beach and returned to their ship, wondering what had happened to Carlson and the main detachment...
Anticlimax. In Raleigh, N.C., Slayer John S. Baldwin, awaiting execution, learned the Governor had commuted his sentence, promptly sent a message of protest, threatened to sue him for "interfering with the court's action...
...WPTF in Raleigh and several other stations wanted to carry Kaltenborn's pep talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...
...Raleigh, Tenn...