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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt himself gave the answers, and the answers chiseled Admiral Leahy's new post down to a nub. Heretofore, said the President, he had spent a lot of time on strategy; he had been forced to read a great deal, see many people. Now Admiral Leahy would save him time by assuming some of the burden: the Chief of Staff would do the "leg work" (from the newspaper term for reporters who gather news and turn it in to a writer), the indexing, the summarizing...
...Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King. Ten munitions workers, claiming to represent 4,000 others, presented a second-front petition to No. 10 Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded...
Practical Importance. The discovery that mice erupt in cycles has important practical applications. In 1935 a U.S. zoologist was able to warn orchardists 18 months in advance of the worst mice outbreak New York State ever suffered, helped save thousands of fruit trees...
...Every warning to U.S. industry to save about-to-be-scarce metals "invariably resulted in a rush to grab as much as they could of the scarce metals while the getting was good, thus making the shortage even more critical." Sample: by the time dogfood canners were told they could have no more tin, they were sitting on a huge pile of cans already lithographed, which they asked permission to use up. WPB graciously let them go ahead, though Army rations could have gone into those cans just as well as into the new ones the Army was ordering. Says...
...Army verdict was that Leonski was a "fiend," whose barehanded strangulation of three Melbourne women "cast a foul blot on the service." But there were two other theories about Leonski, one of which may still save him from the gallows...