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...over the size of the Army. Civilian officials were clamoring for release of soldiers to mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
...mere ten or 20 years, and that in Russia "people of all races, colors, and creeds . . . work out their lives in dignity, safety, and comradeship." The astonished natives had never heard of a "country which looked after its 'children' so well," and Eslanda told them "every scrap" she knew about it. "Africans are people," she concluded, as Imperial Airways whisked her home to old Adelphi, London's theater section...
...more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real personality...
...There's nothing to cheer about, boys-and nothing to be afraid of either. A lot of screwballs seem to have an idea we were going to scrap the Army & Navy and submit everything to a vote. We told them the Senate and the people wouldn't stand...
...days. What could not be repaired in 72 hours, they shipped back to great base shops in Belgium and France-the chief of all in Paris. What was smashed completely they cannibalized, stripping it for its spare parts, leaving only piles of twisted junk for salvage as scrap...