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...Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
...outer yards, tower men set the switches for the Advance to roll onto the express track. Soon after, the nine-car Exposition Flyer wormed its scheduled way onto the same westward ribbon. The pair of silver streamliners whooshed along the flat Illinois roadbed at 80 m.p.h., three minutes apart...
Store directors did themselves proud too with a splurge of fancy displays. Windows and shelves were decked with Georgian grapefruit, imported bananas, chocolates wrapped in tinfoil, gaily-colored candy in ribbon-bound boxes. One big window held nothing but a pyramid of Libby's canned pineapple. But the crowds made mostly for the bread counters...
...later was blown to bits at Salerno, received a posthumous commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. .. . But I rode up on the train from Washington not long ago with a WAVE who hadn't been out of the country, and on her chest was the same .. .ribbon...
Newsman Ruark, who served as a naval officer for three dangerous years in the Battle of the Atlantic, aboard ammunition ships in the Mediterranean, and in the far Pacific, is entitled to wear only the three theater ribbons (with two combat stars) and the Victory Ribbon...