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First observers in the port were aghast at the destruction. Major General Cecil Ray Moore, chief engineer of ETOUSA, said Hennecke had "knocked hell out of the port," but insisted it was "in better shape than I expected." But he emphasized that Cherbourg had been mainly a passenger port, received only a negligible amount of freight (155,000 tons in 1938, contrasted with 1,300,000 for the little canal port, Caen), could not be compared with Naples. Now it was up to the rebuilders to step up its capacity...
...they want to and have learned how." The Army admitted that it must depend in the end on individual commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said angrily: "If the Army says it has difficulty in making its orders stick, then I say: 1) it's a hell of a poor army which can't enforce its own orders; 2) how many commanders who have been lax have been shifted to other posts? Mighty few." Bad to Better. As of last week, the situation was better than it had been, but still bad. The surprising thing was that...
...Hell-Fire. The overzealous chaplain was Kentucky-born Laurel Garnett Gatlin, 44. In the four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because...
Sometimes Partch succeeds with straight insanity: "Who the hell writes your stuff?" asks an eye doctor's patient as he sits before a wall chart inscribed ELPQZVCRNIDTWU...
...build practically from the ground up. . . . Some of the biggest plants (refrigerators, electric ranges, radios, toasters), have been taken out of existence as plants. Machine layouts have been completely removed. Conveyors have been dismantled. All of these have to be put together again. It's one hell...