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Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser last week gave Shipbuilder Andy Higgins tit for tat. A year ago, while H. J. scrambled desperately in Seattle to get shipyard workers, Andy Higgins blandly ran full-page ads in Seattle papers, urging workers to come to his New Orleans plants. Last week, hot on the heels of the Government's cancellation of plane and marine-engine contracts at Higgins, Shipbuilder Kaiser had his scouts set up a desk in the U.S. Employment Service office in New Orleans, sign up Higgins workers as fast as they were laid...
...were just ready to start when all of a sudden bullets came whipping savagely right above our heads. Vicious little shells winged into a grassy hillside just beyond us. Finally the order to start was given. Soon we could hear rifle shots not far ahead, the rat-tat-tat of our machine guns, and the quick blirp-blirp of German machine pistols...
...Falcons" (whose Captain James E. Swett destroyed seven Jap dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...
...Promoted Minister to Canada Ray Atherton to the rank of Ambassador, as his half of a Canada-U.S. tit-for-tat bargain to raise their respective legations to embassies...