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...They Got Me Covered," Robert is lecherous, cowardly, boastful, screw-whacky, and undoubtedly the worst reporter that ever pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling--but forget to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger news. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only loreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back work that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him; fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital...
...They Got Me Covered," Robert is lecherous, cowardly, boastful, screw-whacky, and undoubtedly the worst reporter that ever pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling-but for got to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation...
...Germans at home, bombarded by official pessimism in order to screw them up to maximum effort, the most fearful fact of all was that their propaganda was true. The Axis armies in Russia were indeed shortening their lines-shortening them so far that nearly all the gains of 1942 were already lost, shortening them to the point where further retreats might invite disaster...
...troops. On the Eighth Army's side of the line, between the Germans and Alexandria, the British also had permanent fortifications and mines. Patrols from each side constantly wormed into the mine fields, cautiously uncovered the buried boxes of T.N.T., neutralized them with a twist of a screw and threw them aside. But there were always many more...
...Chairman Donald Nelson declared that the problem had to be faced, the decision had to be made?and soon. He and the Manpower Commission's chairman, Paul Vories McNutt, had told a House Committee that the U.S. must screw itself up to the mandatory control of all civilian manpower. But they knew that legislation alone would not solve the problem. The first, the basic decision was on the size of the U.S. Army...