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...prime U.S. war agency admitted last week that it has neither the power nor the intention to enforce its orders. What's more, it made that admission in a Federal Court, smack in the middle of the District of Columbia. For two years the War Labor Board has bluntly told industry that a maintenance-of-union-membership clause is the logical reward due Labor for the no-strike pledge. But last week WLB filed a motion asking the Court to dismiss a request for an injunction against its enforcement of that key clause. The injunction was sought...
...trying to restore an old practice, and in trying to fill the railroad manpower shortage, FEPC had run smack into the biggest hornet's nest in domestic politics. Franklin Roosevelt's relations with Southern Democrats have never been worse. The FEPC ruling merely poured gasoline on a fire. Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, always ready to investigate the New Deal, stood ready to probe the whole FEPC setup...
Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
...theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take off their gloves to dig out the thorn, somebody is going to bop them right smack in the face." Supply problems alone will hold down the Fourteenth for bitter months to come...
...Smack on the spot where Nettie's cabin stood, a big rotary rig is drilling toward a great new oil-producing level some 4.000 ft. below the original "Frontier" sands...