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...bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit-she cold-shouldered an enthusiastic Chicagoan who wanted to swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante $450,000 in a single day. Beamed Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: "An outstanding success...
Stirred to rapture by the week's events was Turin's Gazzetta dee Popolo...
Hitler is the one who should start worrying about Dee-fense. America is rallying behind National Off-fense, and no two ways about...
Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
General Griswold's first thrust was swift. While his fast-moving troops headed east, he dispatched his bombers, "smashed" every bridge across the Pee Dee. The Blues crossed anyhow. A cavalry outfit swam the Pee Dee. Others crossed by pontoons flung across the stream and by the bridges themselves, which became usable again after "repairs...