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After Dunster and Kirkland, who gained 260 and 2421/2 tallies, came Winthrop, with 2021/2. Lowell with 190, and Adams with 170. Dudley brought up the rear with...
...Navy was far from appeased. Boiling mad, Navymen lost no time in making their feelings known. In Dallas, Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, commandant of the Eighth Naval District, came up swinging with a below-the-belt punch. Cried he: "It is my belief that when the next war comes we will need the finest Army and Air Forces in the world, because with a greatly weakened Navy, submerged under Army control, the fighting will be on our own shores...
Lurch & a Prayer. In Gary, Mrs. Lylas Hazllett, her car stalled in front of an onrushing train, 1) ordered two riders to bail out, 2) went into gear, 3) stepped on the starter, 4) advanced in painful lurches, 5) lost her rear bumper...
Churchill stuck to his bedroom for much of the journey. But the President was on the rear platform at almost every stop, offering his hand to anyone who could reach it. At St. Louis, on the return trip, he appeared on the platform with his striped pajamas showing under the topcoat he had thrown over his shoulders...
...Navy's matériel chief, Rear Admiral C. H. Cotter, granted that such things had happened. Under Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall said isolated cases of wanton destruction were "unavoidable." The services made no secret, however, of their feeling that surplus property was a growing nuisance. Said Royall: "If anything, [the Army] is spending too much money and too many man-hours to protect property of doubtful value." And General MacArthur had already told Washington that if he could ship back surplus goods, he could demobilize men held overseas only to guard stockpiles...