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...British are not quite as imperturbable as they seem, but last week they seemed more imperturbable than ever. After taking five and a half long years of war, work and worry in their stride, they now planned to control their V-day whoop & holler. Some fine day soon, the King or Prime Minister would solemnly proclaim the official victory-and the rest of that day Britons would be expected to go about their business as usual. Next day would be a duly designated national holiday, a proper time for celebration. No extra supplies of beer or spirits will be released...
Behind this war whoop was strong-man Juan Domingo Perón's and his cohorts' fear of the effects of Argentina's hemispheric isolation. They would desperately like, even in absentia, to curry favor at the inter-American conference in Mexico City. To rig up some semblance of democratic thinking and pro-Allied feeling, Argentina has recently...
They lined up for photographs. Pat Hurley reviewed a hastily assembled guard of honor. Bugles blared. General Hurley snapped to attention, saluted. Then he gave China's Communists the greeting that had wowed the Russians-the Choctaw war whoop he taught Red Army men at Stalingrad: "Yahoo...
...Ottawa Journal, listening to the political whoop-de-do across the U.S. border, commented...
...Unbelievable. He devised brand-new production-line methods to turn out the infinitely intricate gun mounts, which contain some 7,000 watchlike parts. To man his plant in manpowerless Minneapolis, he raided other companies, even gave his workers a $10 bonus for each new worker brought in. To whoop up pro duction he served turkey dinners in the plant for 25?, gave War Bond door prizes, installed foot baths for employes, bombarded them with such Hawley slogans as: "Let's work like hell for liberty." The Navy showered "E's" and praise on Hawley. Said one admiring naval...