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Majority Whip John Sparkman, of Alabama, warned his colleagues: "If you change the age limit to 20, there just aren't any men left. . . . I want you to think...
Three days later Alabama's Representative John J. Sparkman rose in the House, announced the junction of U.S. and Russian troops in Germany. The House applauded. Then, without a record vote, it unanimously approved what the Senate had done, sent the draft act and its restriction to the White House...
...heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck maker, but to a firm of yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens. They were to produce a watertight hull; General Motors, Yellow Trucks, the truck chassis and motor...
...benefit of the soldier and the family he leaves behind, many of the nation's debt and tax laws were suspended fortnight ago. Into effect went the Sparkman Act (after Alabama's Congressman John J. Sparkman), which tries to guarantee that no soldier shall return to find his home foreclosed, his insurance policies lapsed and his family out in the street. The new law bolsters earlier attempts to protect the serviceman, plugs the loopholes, sets up as solid a protective fence as any soldier could ask for. Outstanding provisions...
...temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...