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...Just a shade jealous of all the homecoming celebrations for returning generals, the Navy last week laid plans for a monster show of its own. On Oct. 2, silver-haired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress...
Then raise the scarlet standard high, Within its shade we'll live and die, Though cowards flinch and traitors
...TIME'S correspondent in New Delhi watches the thermometer crowd 104 in the shade - and nothing can be done about...
Today's high schools, says the Committee, have "the incomparably difficult task of meeting, in ways which they severally respect and will respond to, masses of students of every conceivable shade of intelligence, background, means, interest, and expectation...
...changeover. But is there going to be enough prospective profit to speed production after the changeover? That was the issue raised last week by the National Industrial Conference Board. It took OPA to task for trying to fix prices of civilian products at 1942 levels, or only a shade over them. This price policy, said the Board, may do exactly what OPA does not want. It may hamstring big-scale production of the civilian goods which would relieve the present pressure on prices...