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Since World War I, the Negro's status as a U.S. fighting man has gone backward. Of the 1,078,331 Negroes registered for the draft in World War I, more than 34% were drafted (less than 27% of the white men registered were taken). Some 380,000 Negroes served as soldiers-10% of the whole Army. The 292,000 Negro troops the Army expects to have at the end of 1942 will come to 8% of the U.S. armed forces in World...
Thus Cunningham, blasting his own hot air at the "hot air" of the architects who are working toward a more secure world community after the guns cool off, is as backward in his own way as the irreconcilables of twenty years ago. Americans are now giving their lives in Java, the Philippines, and North Africa for a cause upon which no one is agreed. Only if we can give their children a chance to enjoy a life safe from bombings, international anarchy, and moral regimentation, will their death have been justified...
TIME marches backward. Important as his job is, tremendous as are his duties, vigorously and conscientiously as he is prosecuting them -President Roosevelt was not the Man of the Year...
...York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy wrote from Cairo last week: "The British armored forces and infantry units have broken the Axis line west of el-Gazála and have sent the Germans reeling backward in headlong retreat." Other reports also had General Erwin Rommel's Army "reeling backward." BBC claimed this week that Rommel was abandoning Bengasi and retreating towards Tripoli...
...those in shipbuilding. Welded structural steel is 7 to 10% cheaper than riveted - an economy which guarantees that riveting will never echo again in U.S. cities. Increasingly common in recent years, welded steel frames would have supplanted riveted buildings five or ten years sooner in most cities had not backward building commissions feared that welding was some sort of tinsmith's soldering...