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Hanson W. Baldwin, most temperate of military commentators and an Annapolis graduate himself, let go a full salvo at the Navy. It hit where it hurt: smack on the Navy's big E (for efficiency...
This was what Franklin Roosevelt had been waiting for. Now the President rolled up his verbal shirt sleeves, whammed one segment of the U.S. press smack on the end of its nose-for-news...
Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland. It won the honor of being Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
...John Citizen, anywhere from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., is he against war and he will say Yes, sure. Sure he's against war. Even smack in the midst of a war that is being won, war in the abstract, war in the future, is about as popular as the man-eating shark. Sure he's against...
...with an eye on the postwar seaways, thinks the U.S. should stop building Liberties and go to work on the Maritime Commission's Victory ship (13½ ft. longer, 5 ft. more beam, 4.6 knots faster). All summer he has pushed this program. All summer he has run smack into Willie Gibbs...