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...year-old, six-foot-three-inch youngster who had been writing "mood music" in Hollywood slipped across the U.S.-Canadian border. To a Canadian colonel he said: "I am tired of seeing these other fellers push you guys around," forthwith enlisted...
...earnestly on the situation, pointing to the big batch of letters and telegrams he had received on farm labor shortages (see p. 22), suggesting that it might be wise for the Army to furlough some of its 35 -to -45 year-olds for work in factory and field. Forthwith, the Army began to furlough 4,000 miners to go back to copper, lead and zinc fields...
Washington, which had not been informed of the unusual award, learned about it from an A.P. dispatch, ordered Lieut. Ridout to "capture" the E forthwith. Tactfully the crestfallen lieutenant told the Globe-News that the Navy wanted its E back. Old Tack roared: "Tell 'em to send the Marines," and headed for the safe...
Senator Henrik Shipstead is a tall and mellow fellow, has spent 19 years in the Senate by mastering the ancient political trick of keeping both ears on the ground at once. In 1940 his overdeveloped ears gave him a warning and forthwith Henrik Shipstead moved out of the old Farmer-Labor Party, and became a Republican...
...labor shortage in the copper mines (TIME, Aug. 3) was so critical last week that the War Labor Board finally went way out of its way to do something about it, promised to consider 37 separate wage-boost pleas forthwith on "an industrywide basis," in order to keep copper miners from drifting away to higher-paid work faster than they can be replaced...