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...Building, Western Union punched 25,000 words a day; the press as sociations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) filed six to eight thousand apiece. How many words poured into the radio microphones, no body stopped to count. Pearl Harbor was the biggest running congressional story since the 1933 Pecora banking investiga tion...
...native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth, as the native in ques- tion was an excellent cook, and his loss would have been irreplaceable...
...Chicago and Detroit workers knew what they were striking about, they knew more than the public. Newsmen, trying to thread through a tangled skein of fact, discovered that four unions claimed jurisdiction over the mechanics, that three had invoked a National Media tion Board election, the other an NMB mediator. Almost lost in the tangle was a rejected company wage offer which would hardly remind most onlookers of the sweatshop-as much pay for a peacetime 40-hour week as for a wartime 48-hour week, plus an average increase of about 10% to boot...
...blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program and fulfill it." Unless sacrifices were made, he implied, the win ter's "fateful deadline" might well bring starvation, political unrest and violence...
...autumn of 1886 an excited, nervous boy of 13 (who had every inten tion of becoming a first mate and no thought whatever of becoming a poet laureate) stepped into a cutter at the Liverpool docks and was rowed to H.M.S...