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...statement touched on another sore spot-labor turnover. In February, out of every 1,000 war workers, 65 quit. Only 53 could be recruited to take their places, a net loss of twelve men per 1,000 in the nation's war-plant labor force...
...Chuck Newton, student council president and high hurdler. Newton and friends read the riot act to students who used the black market and pooled gas illegally. Some students promised to stop. But Newton's task was anything but easy. Said Chuck: "A lot of parents are sore at us for getting the kids to stop doing what parents do all the time...
...bottle of German Army issue champagne. The Germans at once counterattacked with 75 men and chased the small band of Americans away. "It couldn't have been the house they wanted," Kelley solemnly observed. "It wasn't worth a damn any more. They must have been sore about losing that champagne...
Your article on "Tinsel & Ribbon" (TIME, Jan. 24) struck upon a sore subject to many servicemen. The following anecdote may be cited...
Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...