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...many steel-hungry New England businessmen, the scheme makes good economic sense. In the past ten years, New England's textile and leather-goods industries have dropped off while metal manufacturing has increased 75%, employing over 40% of New England's labor force. By removing transportation costs, the local plant should give an even greater boost to New England's metal industries...
There was a man named . . . Brigadier General Thomas O. Hardin . . . In his leather jacket and beat-up hat, he was zipping back & forth over the Hump at times when any self-respecting general would have been making out his per diem vouchers. . Legend has it that he started over one night shortly after a group of transports took off. Arriving in China, he was something less than delighted to learn that all of the transports had turned back because of thunderstorms. He then issued his famous proclamation: "There will be no more turning back because of weather conditions...
...marines. After he went into action in Korea last summer, his mother wrote to the President and to the Marine Corps, begging that Sergeant Ward, her only surviving son, be transferred from the combat zone. The marines' General Clifton Gates agreed to apply the "only surviving son" rule.* Leather-faced Sergeant Ward intercepted the transfer orders, went on fighting...
...office in the White House, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross had just finished briefing correspondents on the progress of the Truman-Attlee meetings (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Sitting in his big leather chair, lean, long-faced Charlie Ross leaned back to light a cigarette, waited for the television men to set up their cameras so he could repeat part of the briefing for them. It had been a hard, crisis-crowded day, and he looked bone-tired. Suddenly, the cigarette fell from his lips and he slumped sideways in his chair. Within seconds, Charlie Ross was dead of a heart...
...would remember the boisterous, brawling affairs that used to be & part of every campaign. Strippers, brass bands, torchlight parades, and riots were common occurrences, and a candidate without a leather lung was lost before...