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...many assault battalions that somebody had called him "often a bride but never a bridesmaid," but now it was obvious that he would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEACHHEAD IN THE MARIANAS | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Roosevelt Jr., formally addressing a group of Long Island grammar-school graduates, told of the time his damaged destroyer was repaired by the ship's crew, explained with simple, declarative profanity: "Some of the boys didn't know exactly what to do, but they knew sure as hell how to find out what to do damned quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Crowe finished Boulder 26 months ahead of schedule. The Shasta deadline is Jan. 6, 1945. Were it still abuilding after that date, Pacific Constructors would have to pay $2,000 for each day. But despite hell, high water and manpower shortages, Crowe intends to top off Shasta in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: By a Damsite | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Frank Crowe hates carelessness. As a result Shasta has killed only twelve men. Once he bellowed at a worker: "Watch what the hell you're doing or you'll fall and break your neck." Retorted the worker: "Well, it's my neck." "Yes, it's your neck now," Crowe shot back, "but as soon as you break it, it's mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: By a Damsite | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...thinking, says he, or else be prepared for a new dark age. All of this comes under the heading of "Faith." Just where the "Reason" and the "Civilization" come in is not apparent to readers with an ounce of skepticism in their systems. Or Fascist Hell? To Mises, the world started to go to the dogs in the middle of the 19th Century, with the failure in Germany of the liberal revolution of 1848. Still living in the mental climate of feudalism, the Prussian landlords who crushed the revolution could not conceive of an economic society distinct from a political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloomy Debate | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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