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...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...
...pigs with glistening ten-inch knives. They wear white uniforms, rubber aprons, and galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...
...Stalingrad front Bock was at a disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty...
...House Appropriations Committee subcommittee was on its ear now. It whacked some more. Tough old John Taber of New York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
Last week the subsidy question was all tangled up with patronage. Congress was in a rage because Leon had tried to be nonpolitical with his OPA appointments-the biggest potential patronage pool the U.S. has seen in years. To "discipline" him Congress got set to slash his $161,000,000 budget to finance his price-control army. It had also refused to authorize subsidies for any price-ceiling casualties except primary producers (like farmers). And it had refused to vote any money at all for any kind of price-ceiling subsidy...