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...MacArthur fought his way back. In fact, as long ago as last September, on the chance that we might find the Japs had destroyed all existing printing equipment, we bought a complete offset printing plant-cameras, presses, folders, stitchers and scores of other big & little items-all boxed for shipment to print TIME and anything else General MacArthur or the Philippines Government might want. We even lined up a reserve crew of plate-makers, pressmen and binders in California, ready to shove off for Manila...
...Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...
...morning, some months later, when Germany invaded Russia, Hopkins was telephoning Government lawyers to see if Russia could be included under Lend-Lease. The consensus was that she could. Six weeks later, when Franklin Roosevelt found out that no shipment of munitions had yet been sent, Harry Hopkins was in England arranging the Atlantic Charter conference. He got a cable ordering him forthwith to Moscow. Two days later he was closeted alone with Stalin in the Kremlin...
...knows yet just how good the De Steffany strike really is. His first shipment of tantalite ore (700 lbs., worth about $2,000) left Edmonton last week for the U.S. Government's Metals Reserve Co. Dominion Government geologists, who have surveyed the site, somewhere in a vast area bordering Great Slave Lake, report that "it's tantalite country up there...