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...goal is set far too low. It will pay for less than two months of war. Franklin Roosevelt released a whopping figure as proof: the war is now costing the U.S. $250,000,000 a day. Said Secretary Morgenthau: there will eventually have to be a War Loan VII...
...regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward VII decreed that no dinner should last longer than an hour. Guests were invited to balls at 10:30. A few admirals and the clergy arrived at 11. The others dined, played bridge, arrived at midnight. Supper was served before 1:00 for the elderly, who took a glass of champagne...
...Scene VII: Private Room H. By next day, everything was organized. All tickets to the Stadium were checked not once, by ushers, but twice, by Ed Kelly's blue-shirted cops. Clusters of tieless war workers, carrying clusters of Wallace placards, were turned away. They just did not seem to have the right kind of tickets...
...censors had also released the names of most of the top commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, former commander of the 25th Division, which relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal.* Other commanders...
...Year VII. In the person of Chiang Kaishek, China sat at Cairo as one of the world's big powers-a tribute to her resistance, a token of her coming place. Her armies and her people suffered, hoped, retreated, resisted, hung...