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...loss of big Chester Pierce that threw the tackle situation into high gear at the start of practice. Chester ran into a recurrence of his 1945 leg injury that will keep him on the bench for at least half the season; Harlow lost his other would-be starter, Howie Houston, for least two weeks with another leg injury. In an effort to boister the tackle positions, Harlow has moved in a variety of other linemen to fill the gap, with former guards Eddle Davis and Ned Dewey looming as starters. Both Davis and Dewey are experienced linemen, with the former...
...TIME believes, no, knows it's always right. If you disagree with anything in it, they will throw their mighty machine of newsgatherers into third gear and somehow prove you wrong, even if it's terribly costly...
...make her fast and pack your gear...
Mantz was an old hand, but he was the only one to have take-off trouble: for five costly minutes after he was airborne, the landing gear of his red-&-white P-51 failed to retract, until he went into a sharp loop...
...productive machine, long clogged by strikes and crippling shortages, was finally running in high gear. Last week Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small cheerily reported: "stop-&-go output" has been replaced by "continuous, high-level production." The pipelines would soon be full and, "if industrial peace continues, an enormous amount of consumers goods would soon pour...