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...reporters obediently reported all this. Scareheads about "500,000 casualties in three months" blossomed in the press. In the White House, Secretary Steve Early's telephone began ringing furiously. OWI Director Elmer Davis and the War Department both wanted to know what the hell. Late that evening the "high Government official's" press agent got the White House reporters on the phone, begged them to tone down their stories, go easy...
...Stampedes. Nonetheless the U.S. public responded to the shortages with 1) extreme patience; 2) a dogged determination to buy something-for a good deal more money than usual-come hell or no help in the nation's overcrowded stores. In Manhattan, swank Saks Fifth Avenue stayed open three Thursday nights in a row, "practically by request," and reported that customers packing breathlessly into their usually roomy elevators had been heard to exclaim: "Gee, this is just like Macy's." But Macy's, which seemed to contain most of Greater New York's population, calmly took...
...greatest indignity of them all. His head had been blown off completely; both his arms were gone. I was nauseated, although I had become inured to almost anything by that time. I turned to the big, red-bearded marine gunner who stood beside me and I said: "What a hell of a way to die." The gunner looked me in the eye and said: "No, it's not. You can't pick any better...
...nobody," said Louis B. Mayer flatly, "who can't be photographed." Salary? Miss Garson held out for-and (reputedly) got-$500 a week, which was (reputedly) the biggest salary ever paid a beginner in films. Soon she was in Hollywood. A little later, she was in hell...
...average, about as much as he has already drawn for the year (average per worker: $2,250). This will also add up to $50,000 on the paychecks of a few key men. In so doing, James Lincoln told both the Navy and the Treasury to go to hell, in those exact one-syllable words...