Word: troop
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Soap opera's biggest single earner (as high as $250,000 a year) is a 43-year-old ex-Ohio schoolmarm named Irna Phillips. Weekday mornings the 45 characters of her three current shows (The Guiding Light, Today's Children, The Woman in White) troop past an NBC microphone in 45 minutes of virtually nonstop emotionalism. Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, Writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft. She called it "social significance...
...came clanking off the Mimeographs. It came from on high (the combined chiefs of staff) and was as big a surprise to most censors as to correspondents. Said 1621: "In order to clarify the position of this headquarters . . . censorship in this theater is hereby discontinued except for major troop movements . . . and such other matters of high military importance as may require reference to the Supreme Commander...
...railroads now face the war's worst jam. In his message to Congress last week, President Truman said: "Troop move ments on the nation's railroads will be come increasingly heavy from now on. I ask for full public cooperation in preventing any aggravation of this burderion domestic transportation, for it would slow down the rate at which soldiers can be reunited with their loved ones." But the President had described the picture in the mildest of terms...
...troop movements and furloughs, the Army now uses half the Pullmans in the country (total 8,753) and one-third of the coaches (total 39,244). To handle the load at its peak, some Office of Defense Transportation officials thought 4,000 to 5,000 more passenger cars would have to be taken from civilians...
...Near East power, support? Until 1943, she had encouraged Syrians and Lebanese to break their French ties. Last year Britain changed her mind, reportedly because of the growing strength of Russia. Last week, the British Foreign Office, in one of its rare public statements, simultaneously "regretted" the French troop transfer and the Pan-Arab League's attitude. To both parties Britain offered her good offices as mediator. Neither accepted...