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...tide that morning bared the bodies of many Marines, some hunched grotesquely, others with arms outstretched, all arrested while charging forward. At regimental headquarters, located 30 yards inland against a Jap log-and-steel-laced blockhouse, staff officers worked grimly. Colonel David Shoup, huge, bull-necked commander of the men ashore, reported: "We're in a mighty tight spot. . . . We've got to have more men." It was touch-&38;-go whether the Marines would all be killed, or, less likely, be pushed back into...
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, financial doctor to the Administration, was worried by the growth of public purchasing power accompanied by a dearth of things to buy (see p. 87). One of his keenest Treasury advisers, Dr. Carl Shoup of Columbia University, told him that U.S. citizens will have anywhere from $5,000,000,000 to $8,000,000,000 more money in their pockets next year, and fewer things to spend it on. The Office of Production Management now figures that the national income of the U.S. in 1942 will...
...seem so much out of place as might have been supposed. The Hall, a ghostly place with mysterious acoustics, is a majestic marble democracy wherein the modest statues of the truly great are crowded out by the effigies of such comparative unknowns as Uriah Rose of Arkansas. George Shoup of Idaho. At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments...
...Tidewater); three alleged subsidiaries; Standard's President Kenneth R. Kingsbury. who is a member of the oil code's Planning and Coordinating Committee, Vice President Oscar Sutro. nine other officers and directors; Associated's President William F. Humphrey. 15 other officers and directors, including Paul Shoup. vice chairman of Southern Pacific Co. Indictments were based on no less than 185 counts for Associated, 149 for Standard, including one for each day's violation of the oil code after it was signed Aug. 19. The charges: 1) Standard Oil of California secretly controls two small companies. Signal...
...Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble Oil), Frederick Lockwood Lipman (Wells Fargo), Paul Shoup (Southern Pacific...