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Camp officials denied that the WACs were involved in the escape plot. Husky German prisoners who volunteer to do maintenance work at the skyhigh, isolated training center, go around stripped to the waists, love to inflate their chests, flex their muscles, and kid with the WACs. In the opinion of Camp Hale's baffled officials the susceptible WACs were guilty, at worst, of springtime indiscretion...
...Harvests are burning, railway lines are being blown skyhigh, trains are being derailed. Everywhere French National Socialists are falling under Tommy-gun bullets, while the army of terrorists is moving about freely almost under the protection of the robes of judges who are only too ready to acquit criminals...
...Last week's Boeing manpower crisis stemmed from three main factors (besides the draft): 1) wage rates in Seattle's booming shipyards are higher, drain off Boeing's workers as fast as they can be trained; 2) Seattle is desperately overcrowded; rents and food prices are skyhigh; new workers soon find out that high war pay is a deception; 3) Boeing labor relations are poor...
...President, at this point, told his press conference that some people in Congress wanted to let prices go skyhigh. Be it on their heads, he said, in effect...
Then the War Labor Board blew Harold Ickes' delicate work skyhigh. Day after the strike began, WLB ordered cessation of all negotiations, and marched to the White House. Then the members angrily demanded that Harold Ickes stop meddling. To them the first, most important thing was the principle that WLB should not be bypassed. To Ickes the job was to get coal mined. WLBsters threatened to resign en masse. Faced with a choice of jettisoning his own Labor Board or of getting a quick settlement (in which Lewis might seem to win), Franklin Roosevelt upheld...