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Next day Mrs. Roosevelt, her bones doubtless aching, her nerves still twitching, snapped in her column: "Certain things seemed to me a little ludicrous. . . . The moving men tell me they are always busy, somebody moves every day in the year, so one would think that it would be something to which people were fairly well accustomed. ... A naval friend . . . sent in a trunk to be housed until he gets settled. Another friend lent Mrs. Roosevelt a car, and all this was headline, front-page news...
Marshal Petain retains the innocuous title and role of Chief of State. Doubtless Pierre Laval would have no objection to the aged bulk of the Marshal walking, as Field Marshal von Hindenburg once walked, beside Adolf Hitler on the day of triumph...
...decision was doubtless based on necessity-acute shortage of steel. So the railroads promised to try to make bricks without new straw. But already they have stretched their modest straw supply to record lengths. In 1942's first quarter, their carloadings increased 8.2% over 1941, but they forced ton-miles up an estimated 28%. The greater the proportion of ton-miles to the number of cars loaded, the bigger the load that is got into the average car, and the further that car is moved. In 1941 the railroads had a 50% increase in carloadings over...
...Mexico. More such men will doubtless come out of Mexico to play a part in the hemispheric symphony whose importance the U.S. belatedly realized. More such men will come, because Mexico is the place-all outdated U.S. notions to the contrary-where such men are possible...
Editor Hibbs's Country Gentleman has been considerably more pro-Administration than the Post. But the disagreement which produced the shake-up doubtless concerned a great deal more than the editorial page, for fiction is still the main stay of the Post's editorial appeal. And Editor Stout, who got his training under the late, great editor, George Lorimer, was generally credited with doing a first-rate...