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Giving this job to Sir Stafford was a popular move on Prime Minister Winston Churchill's part, both at home and in India. Skeptics suggested that his passage to India might have been arranged by the Tory bloc, to rid the British scene of this ardent advocate of aid to Russia and Indian self-government (see p. 44). But there were signs that pointed against such a conclusion...
Armor. Casting U.S. tank turrets and hulls, heretofore riveted or welded together from steel plate, gets rid of another traditional prejudice against cast steel: that it couldn't successfully be toughened by heating and quenching. About one-third of U.S. tanks are now built of cast armor, and all of them would be, if foundry and machining facilities were adequate...
...lends a ready ear to their bitter indictment of "the blunders of their fathers" -as if every generation did not pay for the blunders of its fathers by perpetrating new blunders on its children. But the gentle Tomlinson mind is encased in a hard head. He cannot quite rid himself of a pessimism that comes from knowing too much human history -an uneasy suspicion that when the dust has subsided, the groans have died away and radiant future has dimmed into present reality, the same old team will be found hauling the same wagon up the same hill. Only...
Aubrey Willis Williams, National Youth Administrator, veteran defender of boondoggling, changed his tune about NYA. Said he: "Sewing rooms, arts & crafts, music, recreation projects, school lunches . . . have got to go. . . . We must get rid of every soft spot that smells." He asked his aides to get "very, very tough...
...doctors and volunteers in Cuba, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, allowed themselves to be bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas rid Panama of yellow fever, reduced malaria, made possible the building of the Canal...