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...this he had largely failed. Louis Johnson had moved in like a combine advancing on a field of summer wheat. He set out "to crack a few heads together," and he did so by bold and brusque decisions. In his fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with the atomic bomb. The strategic bombing role would go to Secretary Stuart Symington's Air Force...
...some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...
Barbara excitedly showed the Star clipping to visitors, pasted it into her scrap-book-and began to eat again. With a new lease on life she began to enjoy the shipments of frozen and fresh watermelons supplied by the Star's readers. At week's end, Barbara was still too sick to live-and still happily alive...
When all the characters were safely in side, Kio carefully screwed down the top. From the band came a short burst of jazz music and Kio opened up the head again. The gunmen, chorus girls and dwarfs were gone; all that was left was a scrap of paper: the Atlantic pact...
...Time Is Now. The hour is not only Britain's finest, but Churchill's, calling upon him to exert to the full every talent and scrap of wisdom of his 65 knowledgeable years. Out from under their old wraps he brings a host of favorite, once-rejected projects (such as the portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider...