Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: General Marshall (TIME, July 14) is concerned with the possibility of having to rub out what the Army has accomplished in training draftees...
...spends a year in the compulsory Labor Service, learning that it won't hurt his hands to use them for hard work, won't hurt his elbows to rub them against those of the lowliest Germans. Finally he is ready to join the Army as an officer-candidate...
George Marshall talked bluntly, as a soldier should. What he had to say about extending the one-year draft period could be boiled down to a terrifyingly simple conclusion: Unless the citizen soldiers now in the Army are kept there, the U.S. will have to rub out what it has done and start over again. For, in expanding the field Army from some 210,000 regulars (Sept. 1, 1939) to 1,448,500 (last week), the staff has had to spread its three-year professionals perilously thin. Only two divisions (First and Third) are now made up exclusively of three...
Post-Mortem. By midnight the action was over, the northern Italian squadron had never joined battle. Later eight reconnaissance planes flew out over the scene and saw hundreds of Italians on life rafts. British units came back and picked up over 900 men-and found two ways to rub into Benito Mussolini's hide his Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged...
...important thing about Gold Coast is not its architecture, nor its location, but its atmosphere. Probably more than any other House, Adams realizes President Conant's ideal of a cross section of the country, where all types rub elbows in a jovial informality...