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...didn't get to Europe during the war and would like to find out all about the comforts of a troop ship, or if you just want to look up that little brunette in Parts, or if you are one of those who are interested in "foreign travel and culture," the State Department and the U. S. Maritime Service have arranged things...
...ships, says the Institute, will be "much less crowded than troop transports during the war but essentially unchanged." Women passengers will be placed in multiple bed cabins, while most of the male travelers will find themselves in open holds, and will eat in stand-up cafeterias...
There had to be a long-range plan to permit the slow, expensive development of new types. Consolidated Vultee has built one 400-man troop-carrying C-99. But Consolidated's President Harry Woodhead said that without more millions of dollars and years of preparation for production the C-99 might just as well be a "museum piece." Warned J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fair child Engine & Airplane Corp.: "We will never again have five years to mobilize aircraft production...
Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge...
...tries to forget his passion for the golden-skinned Denise. This turns out to be un necessary for Sabrina conveniently goes crazy. But Hugh, too, has noted the tiger ish Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except Denise...