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...minor eye defect. As he was leaving the recruiting station, he met a Commander in the Navy who took a real interest in his troubles. A short discussion followed and the Commander secured permission for him to ship on the City of Flint, a ship already famous from a brush with the Nazis. At present Ernie is remaining at work and expects to be called with in the next few days...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Reuther was back on the radio, with a new version of his plan. He bluntly aired his fight with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced...
...must hurry up," said he, "because I'm living now on the velvet of my life." Like many another Souchon, No. 500 depicted a tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under...
Admiral Yamamoto is wily as only the Japanese can be. When he crossed the U.S. in 1934, reporters noted that he was short on English, that he answered them through an interpreter. Actually he spoke excellent English then; he used the interpreter to brush off embarrassing questions...
...Camp Bullis, 20 miles from San Antonio, a couple of colonels* were busy belying this scurrilous chant. So were 152 other officers. They are students in the Third Army Junior Officers Training Center-a school set up by Lieut. General Walter Krueger to brush up his juniors (and interested seniors) on military fundamentals. This week the center's first class will receive diplomas from General Krueger, go back to their posts leaner and wiser than before...