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Despite a five-day week, despite Saturdays and Sundays in New York, despite a maximum disciplinary penalty of being turned back to their draft boards, and despite a scale of living which costs the country $60,000 a day, nearly 15% of all those enrolled since Sept. 1 have quit in midcourse. Stay-ons salute them as "Sucker...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
...punished a union for being a bad boy, denied maintenance of membership to the locals in certain Monsanto Chemical Co. plants. Unlike the precedent-setting Aluminum Co. of America case (TIME, Aug. 31), WLB gave specific reason for its action: the union broke a "no-strike" pledge, called a five-day, 700-man strike in July...
...Atlantic City's big Convention Hall last week milled some 10,000 doctors, a handful in major's and colonel's uniforms, the majority in Palm Beach suits. They were members of the American Medical Association, in 93rd annual convention assembled-having a last, five-day fling before they abandoned their practices and specialties for war work...
Only three days before Britain disclosed that Archangel was in use again, the Admiralty had told how a convoy, perhaps the same one or a section of it, had fought its way to safety through a five-day battle with U-boat and Luftwaffe packs. German boasts of sinking 18 ships the Admiralty called "an exaggeration of 175%" (i.e., six or seven ships were lost...