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Three years ago practically no one in the U.S. talked of forming a federal union of any kind with any nation. To spread the idea of a Union of Democracies, our Federal Union organization had to begin at scratch then and pull itself up by its shoestrings. Its resources have been trifling compared to the funds spent in that period promoting popular get-peace-quick-and-easy schemes such as isolationism, short-of-warism...
...Girdler had set the first bomber assembly line in motion-no mean feat even for a company rich in aircraft experience. Detroit will draw on his experience. Its feat will be that, having started from scratch a few months ago, it will soon duplicate and reduplicate the deeds of the aircraft industry-if-the Great If-the U.S. maintains a steady flow of materials into the enormous rooms...
...past month wives of officers in the Eighth Corps Area have been thus telling the world what a good husband a soldier makes. Some of the more realistic have added such warnings as: "Look out for those bars on [your] husband's shoulders. They sure can scratch when you put your arms around him." Army Wives, the bright idea of an energetic lieutenant in public relations and an astute WOAI program director, is meant to be "a sort of marriage bureau for soldiers, glorifying Army wives, to encourage girls to go ahead and marry soldiers...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...
Under the Knife. Most of the skull wounds at Pearl Harbor were made by fragments of steel varying in size from pieces smaller than a dime to large, jagged chunks bigger and thicker than a silver dollar. Often the smaller missiles left only a scratch on the forehead, but passed right into the brain, tearing apart a considerable amount of tissue. Those men whose heads were shattered died in a few minutes. But others, whose skulls were quite intact, were good risks for operation, no matter how badly their brains were damaged...