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Turbulent Sir Richard is a British combination of Eugene V. Debs and Billy Sunday. He is also the evangelist of Britain's tiny but active Common Wealth Party. Said Sir Richard: "I rise to oppose this motion. I am aware that such a motion has never been opposed before. . . ." Sir Richard then denounced the condition of the voters' register at Eddisbury, said it should be rejuvenated to give the vote to all over 21, including soldiers, who have lived in Eddisbury for the past six months or longer...
Stuttgart is the old city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
...some point not precisely discernible, MacArthur's star began to rise again. His airmen were able to do a bang-up job, flying men and supplies over the Owen Stanley range to his troops on New Guinea. The campaign for Papua succeeded. Lieut. General George C. Kenney, MacArthur's air-force commander, acquired a deep respect for him. His men just behind the New Guinea lines saw him in person (see cut). Upon combined ground and air power, he formulated a doctrine of Pacific offense: "A new form of campaign was tested . . . the offensive and defensive power...
...House Committee prepared to throw in a few restrictions: 1) WAAC officers may command women only; 2) WAACs may not draw dependency pay from soldier husbands; 3) the WAAC's commanding officer, photogenic, 38-year-old Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, may not rise above that rank. Thus with the, WAAC strength headed toward 375,000, Colonel Hobby will have more troops under her administrative control than several lieutenant generals...
...worry through with a theory until it is validated or disproved ... to improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged...