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Cooperation and team work are the basic foundations of an Army, Jealousy among women is no small item and in lots of cases is rampant. Get a crowd of females together and sooner or later something pops. One thing leads to another and there is a gnashing of teeth, ripping of straps and unsetting of permanent waves, although the last possibility seems a trifle unlikely, depending upon what provision a female soldier's budget makes for trips to the post Helena Rubenstein or Zotos salon...
...news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...break fast tables of Britain's rulers: "A momentous document which should and must exercise a profound and immediate in fluence on the direction of social change in Britain." Other comments: Telegraph: "The consummation of the revolution begun by Mr. Lloyd George in 1911. . . . Perhaps the one really basic innovation ... is the establishment of a national minimum level of subsistence." Manchester Guardian: "A big and fine thing." Daily Worker: "A courageous attempt ... to alleviate some of the worst evils of present-day society. . . . The main principles . . . will be endorsed by all progressive opinion." The man in the street...
Brouha Finds Basic...
...called into the Service for further technical training is said to be under consideration by the War Department. "However, should such a plan be adopted, it could not assure that college students would be sent back to their former places of study," Perkins said. "Students would probably receive their basic training before being returned to the colleges," he added...