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...rubber program. On its report-which is not likely to be postponed till after the elections-decisions about nationwide gas rationing and motor transportation are to be based. And if the committee does a good enough job, it may well become the nucleus of the "economic high command" of which all Washington was talking last week...
First Blow. Fifty-eight-year-old Admiral Ghormley laid out the whole show. He did it with the approval and the help of his superior, Admiral Chester William Nimitz of Pearl Harbor, command hero of Midway, who had the disposal of the whole Pacific Fleet and was able to dispatch the force that mixed up the Jap in Kiska...
...maker of battles, even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on the calm, unexcited way of his command of a battleship, of his respect for the opinions of his staff officers before his own decisions were made. But few of them had ever got to the inside of the man. When they tried, by thinking back over his friendship, they decided that inside was all Navy. In Ghormley...
...command, hell breaks loose. Shells hiss, scream, howl-a horrible, beautiful melody. Over by the Russians a black, impenetrable wall rises...
When it was over the big fellow and his brother Negroes came up panting. Asked the officer in command: "Which was that man who was way ahead?" The big fellow should have saluted. But it is hard for a man to remember the rules when he is only two days a sailor. He raised his hand and said: "It was me." "Well," said the officer, "that was fine...