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...Controller of Shipping. He will coordinate the programs of Army, Navy and Maritime Commission, will have the duty of making sure that all U.S. shipbuilding methods are brought up to date in speed and efficiency. Mr. Gibbs likes nothing better than speed and efficiency. His radical, straight-from-the-lip methods lie behind the technological revolution which made four-day Liberty Ships possible (TIME, Sept. 28); his firm of Gibbs & Cox is responsible for 70% of all Liberty Ships abuilding, turns out 26 acres of blueprints a month, buys $1,000,000 worth of materials a day. As an administrator...
Harvard paid a fairly small price for its victory as far as injuries are concerned . . . Leo Flynn suffered a leg injury, Steve Mallett received two stitches for a lacerated lip, and Charley Gudaitis acquired a lacerated eyebrow...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
...Maritime Commission was sick too, but the Commission kept a stiff upper lip. Existing ways, it insisted, are doing so much better than anyone had dared hope that the President's huge merchant-ship program will still be more than met. Right now, U.S. shipyards are producing six to eight ships per way per year v. a planned output of only four to four and a half ships. That would be fine except that still more ships are needed-more than ever...
...case of Fredric March was something else again. Silvery glory went to his head, to his upper lip, to his eyebrows, transformed him into the most reasonable facsimile of Samuel Langhorne Clemens this side of Mark Twain...