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...turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...
...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...
...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
...Gear for Autos. The gloom was slightly relieved by George Christopher, president of Packard. He predicted little reconversion unemployment for Detroit because 1) plants will be busy on Japanese war work, 2) workers will be needed for the reconversion job itself...
...High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...