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...them, William Stewart and Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...
...tanks and ammunition go back to Aberdeen Proving Ground, 35 miles northeast of Baltimore. Close examination not only reveals secrets of design and operation but often gives an insight to the enemy's general materiel situation. Example: a German 88-mm. gun at Aberdeen has a three-piece barrel, indicating shortages of certain materials. The U.S. 20 years ago stopped manufacturing similar weapons in this obsolete manner...
Still the cry is for more capable officers. Some observers believe the barrel is being scraped. The physical appearance of the newest crop is undersized. Their average grades are lower, and their age is dropping. When the tide of teen-age draftees begins flowing the average age will fall still more. "I would rather have 25-year-old officers." says General McNair, "but we'll take them at 19 if they are good...
Senator Reed would solve this problem by boosting the ceiling on flour by 58? a barrel. Such a move might inflate the cost of living by adding 1? a loaf to the price of bread. A better solution would be to permit the Commodity Credit Corp. to sell part of its vast holdings of surplus wheat at less than parity. But this has been resisted by Congress. So, more likely, OPA may take the easiest way out, grant the millers a subsidy. To grain men, this would be crowning folly...