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...Mayor has not responded in kind. Suspicious of the press from the first, he nonetheless got along well enough with them for a while. Then Butch decided to abandon regular press conferences. The occupants of "Room 9" (City Hall pressroom) took that in stride and kept the copy rolling. He got mad at a reporter, tried and failed to persuade his publisher to fire him. Warier after that, Room Niners still kept up the coverage...
...welders and machinists, and send them where they are most urgently needed. It must assure adequate farm labor to produce the food necessary for maintaining our own civilian and armed forces as well as those of out allies. Finally, it must stand ready to compel any worker to abandon a non-essential job for an essential one, regardless of the sacrifices involved...
...Abandon Ship." "I can't bear to look at her," said a young ensign, 'watching from an escort. He turned his face and walked away. Slowly the York town turned on her side. Two planes clung like beetles to her slanting deck. "My God, she's going to capsize," an officer said, almost in a whisper. Then up went the blue & white flag: "Abandon ship...
Minutes later fire had swept down from B deck toward the magazine, but Bradbury stubbornly refused to abandon ship. The next message conceded the fire out of control. "They are abandoning ship." Flames scorched the blistered rescue ships. But in the glare and with submarine-taunting searchlights stabbing through the smoke the last of the fire fighters were taken aboard rescue craft...
Will the Navy and the Air Corps follow the lead of the Army and abandon their deferment programs? Men in the Marines have already received their six-months notice. What is to be the fate of the ROTC? In many quarters, sections of the Stimson dictum were taken to mean that the college units will be given up. When the lowered draft age becomes a reality, will the age limits of the ERC, and any other such groups operating under similar regulations, drop to meet it? And if they do should the colleges go into the English system...