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...GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING AND JUDGING GROUPS OF MEN, TO BE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH-GRADE REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUNG AMERICA. THEIR CIVILIAN STATUS DOES NOT PRECLUDE DISCIPLINE. THEY DO NOT THUMB THEIR NOSES AT M.P.S. THE TRAINING STATION HAS ITS OWN POLICE SYSTEM WHICH OPERATES EXACTLY AS DO THE NAVAL AND MILITARY POLICE SYSTEM...
Social Arbitress Emily Post informed OWI of her decision that it was all right for women war workers to go ahead and thumb rides to work. But she insisted that good taste imposes certain rules. One's identification badge is to be raised aloft instead of a thumb; only cars with B or C ration stickers should be hailed; between girl and driver "conversation is not necessary. If they must talk, they should stick to impersonal subjects." And Miss Post emphasized: "If the driver is not going in her direction, he does not stop...
...eyed Pierre Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...
...Journal last week, Dr. John H. Stokes of Philadelphia, 'dean of U.S. venereal disease experts, began: "The venereal disease control field is a perpetual Christmas pudding and full of surprises. As Little Jack Horner (whom I may be supposed to impersonate for this occasion) puts in this thumb and pulls out a plum, with his well-known expression of egotistic self-satisfaction, little does he realize that his find will presently be shown to be a raisin or even a California prune...
...loading a ship so as to get the best stability possible is no longer something that depends on the feel and the rule-of-thumb calculations of the officer in charge of stowage. But all the guess has been taken out of it by a simple gadget which has been installed on a number of U.S. ships...