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Cubs. Strong in the outfield, weak in catching. Strong hitters: Bill Nicholson (I-A), Lou Novikoff (I-A), Andy Pafko (4-F). Said General Manager Jim Gallagher: "No government action will shorten the season...
Says Chester Nimitz: "They will probably become more of a menace to us as the lines shorten. We are not finished with the Japanese submarine, by any means...
...Bush thinks of himself as essentially a man of peace. He regards himself as working at a disagreeable but necessary assignment. He refuses to be drawn into discussions as to the possibilities of OSRD inventions for the peace to come. OSRD's sole job, he considers, is to shorten the war. But one thing he would like to see continued after the war-something like OSRD. Says he, hammering his desk with his fist: "If we had been on our toes in war technology ten years ago, we would probably not have had this damn...
...fighter planes, tanks, land mines, antiaircraft and anti-tank guns has actually risen. Even Ruhr coal production has been largely maintained by doubling and tripling shifts, calling for volunteer workers. The locomotive shortage, one of Germany's worst problems, has been eased as German forces retreat and shorten the distances to the front...
...with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men. Now working for the Foreign Economic Administration, Buckminster Fuller finds Dymaxion working and sleeping out of the question. But he wishes the nation's "key thinkers" could adopt his schedule; he is convinced it would shorten...