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...Navy long ago took over swank establishments like Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel for bluejackets returned from combat. About 5,000 Army airmen rest each month at topflight resort hotels in the U.S. Finally, last week some of the same kind of luxury was dished up for G.I. Joe himself...
...president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin's letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than usual. It was an invitation for competitive bids on $100 million 3½% refunding bonds of the Great Northern-the largest issue of topflight railroad bonds to come to market since 1900. The sale must be completed...
Russian explanations were lame: busy with the immediate necessities of war and reconstructing devastated areas, the country is short of topflight men who have been thinking about postwar organization; Ambassador Gromyko is an able young man ("Why, he served as an UNRRA delegate in Atlantic City!"). A more likely explanation: Russia's topflight diplomats were being held at home to work out the Polish problem. And some State Department men even concluded that the Soviet Union attached little importance to the Dumbarton Oaks discussion anyhow...
...Norman front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...