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...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
...Phoenix's jointly-owned Arizona-Republic and Gazette dropped to tabloid size on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to save enough paper to be standard-sized the rest of the week. The tab editions will carry no display ads except for movies and churches...
During 1944, WPB's Management Consultant Division worked out incentive plans for some 1,000,000 workers, kept tab on what happened through spot checks of the plants. Result: production jumped an average of 40% within three months after the workmen began to get bonus pay for extra work...
...this speech brought Keating high praise, along with requests for jobs. Commented Advertising Age: "It's things like this that reaffirm our occasionally wavering faith that it's fun to be in the advertising business." Worldly-wise Variety headlined the talk "Just Let 'em Pay the Tab-Keating...
...versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...