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...spring the true Harvard Freshman should have inured himself to the charms of our neighbors 14 miles to the north-west and quite probably will have moved on the greener fields of Northampton, Bennington, and Poughkeepsie...
...highly specialized German Air Force unit which had pounded Malta into unimportance, which had walloped the aircraft carrier Illustrious as it tried to run a convoy through the Sicilian channel, which above all had covered the transport of Axis troops and supplies to Libya, had gone on to greener pastures. The departure made the Sicilians very happy; no one now could say that Sicily was German-occupied territory...
...fortnight. The sturdy old Philadelphia firm of J. B. Lippincott, climaxing four years of expansion, bought control of the old Manhattan firm of Frederick A. Stokes. Like many another U.S. book publisher, both Lippincott and Stokes have remained one-family institutions. But Lippincott, aged 149 this year, has kept greener than Stokes...
Both divisions were much better off in man power. In eight months of active training, the handful of veteran tankers in the Army had done a stupendous job of schooling raw men, turning them into instructors for still greener recruits. Result: considering the equipment at hand, the commanders of the First and Second Divisions last week could say that they could "function in any emergency." But not for long: as with all the U.S. Army of 1941, an armored division is no sooner trained than it must be broken up to form and school fresh outfits...
Workmen had a way of disappearing suddenly, gone to seek (or lured to) greener fields. Precious man-hours were wasted traveling from yard to yard on West Coast highways. If shipbuilding's West Coast labor market was near chaos with 20,000 workers employed now, what would it be by late 1942, when the industry expects to have 70,000 employes? What OPM wanted to do was avert an explosion, not try to pick up the pieces afterward. Out to the West Coast went bald, spectacled Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now on leave...