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...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
...gimlet-eyed, barrel-chested Coast Guard commander boarded the Streamliner in Los Angeles last week and left behind a list of legends that would do credit to the crustiest admiral. After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand...
...into Cairo's crowded Shepheard's Hotel. Few people noticed the man who had come from England to boss the demoralized Eighth Army. He had been second choice for the job, after the death of Lieut. General William Henry Ewart ("Strafer") Gott. Outside military circles, the scrawny, gimlet-eyed little man was unknown...
...command of the operations against the west African coast is roaring, gimlet-eyed Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine...
...over its contracts, warns companies their contracts are up for renegotiation. The companies' first move: bookkeepers tally up the latest figures, cost accountants wrangle with shop foremen over factory expenses, company bigwigs sweat over hard-to-pin-down items like depreciation, obsolescence, reserves for post-war conversion. Sometimes gimlet-eyed price-board agents hang around to try to make sure no penny is mislaid. This statistical roundup takes days, perhaps months, sometimes actually interferes with war production...