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Dewey also took time to trace, in considerable detail, the long record of Administration bungling in setting up and tearing down defense agencies, from WRB through OEM and NDAC down to OPM and SPAB and finally WPB, which only a month ago "fell apart . . . and the head of the board was given a ticket to China...
...London, "Dicky" Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
...dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. (Wall Street could trace neither rumor to fact...
...Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...
...hobby -brushing up Sam's American history. As the series continues, Sam and George meet at Sam's house, at George's shack in the woods (this mail-order shelter quite natu rally sets them talking about the pioneer log cabin), and gradually they trace the rise of the Republic to world power and world responsibilities. A specially prepared history atlas of 17 maps is available to listeners...