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UNRRA now has some 3,200 employes, 1,900 in the field, 1,300 in Washington and London offices. But not even UNRRA's staunchest defenders claim that its personnel is anywhere near competent. Average salary for a field worker is $3,600. Starting late in the hiring field, UNRRA found most capable men already in the Army or in better-paying Government or private jobs. What UNRRA got, in general, were culls, drifters through Government hiring halls, and plain incompetents...
...attack narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...
...delegates liked Bretton Woods (TIME, July 31), but faintheartedly declined to go on record for it. But the meeting did bring into sharp focus one important problem: the wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
Senator Claude Pepper, (D. Fia.), one of President Roosevelt's staunchest supporters in the upper house, will speak at an open meeting sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Councils on Post-War Problems tonight...
Your_ statement to the effect that The Citadel is the nation's staunchest stronghold of the Grey traditions is a high compliment, and well-deserved by the Old School...