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...After the scrap I very stupidly hung around for ten minutes or so, trying to determine the damage to the ships. It was not until I started back alone that I really appreciated the fix I was in. I did not even have a watch. . . . I could hear other pilots calling for the field . . . but I could not get anyone to answer...
...essential civilian" production was a notable victory for tiny, grey Arthur D. Whiteside, chief of WPB's underprivileged Office of Civilian Requirements. Arthur Whiteside took his job seven months ago with the clear understanding that all he could hope to offer the U.S. civilian would be an occasional scrap from the military's groaning table. For months he battled with the Services just for the privilege of using the scraps. The military can spare the scraps all right, but they feared (and still fear) that U.S. civilians will automatically conclude that the war is about over if production...
Behind this sanguine exuberance lay some doubts: the American "scrap-of-paper" cynicism about treaties. But in & out of Washington, Americans were impressed, relieved, hopeful...
...Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
...Italy, before he set out, De Luce was warned by "exiles who still are stoutly devoted to General Draja Mihailovich of the danger . . . [but] I've found not one scrap of evidence of Partisan terror...