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...Willow Run bomber plant, the company docked the pay of a foreman for spending company time on union business. The foremen promptly struck. The Association estimated that 1,800, or 90%, went out; the Ford company estimate, 1,130. Although the 40,000 other workers stayed on the job, production nosedived, was cut in half in the manufacturing department. After one day, the strike ended when the company reportedly agreed not to dock the foreman...
...twelve, at Harrow, he fell 30 feet off a bridge, broke his shoulder instead of his head. At 21, in Cuba, he walked untouched through a rain of bullets. At 23, in India, he jumped from boat to dock, misjudged, smasl ed again his once-broken right shoulder (on this occasion he is reported to have uttered "most unChristian oaths...
...lessons of Tarawa were written into bills authorizing more landing craft, which were rushed through Congress last week. The Navy's landing-craft program now totals 80,000, from the huge (450 ft.) dock ships to rubber rafts. Marines were especially glad to see that there were some "Alligators" on the program...
From grinning Navy men the U.S. Army finally found what had happened to a missing jeep. It had been parked on a dock in a West Coast port hard by a submarine. Next day both submarine and jeep had gone. To newspaper ads asking for information leading to recovery of the little car, the Army got no reply...
Soldiers' talk has spread Perla's fame across the world. Captains usually salute her as their ships pass her dock. Her megaphone came from a torpedoed liner as a gift from grateful Tommies. Perla Siedle is the wife of Air Sergeant Jack Gibson, last stationed at Foggia, Italy, and she has two sons and one daughter in the South African Army. She has sung goodby to all of them, watching their ships move out of sight over the bar to the tune of her favorite closing number, Auld Lang Syne...