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...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
...Soldiers Field layout will handle with case the load that the Indoor Athletic Building "split at the seams" under, the conditioning director believes. Last winter, he said, the Indoor Athletic Building was jammed with eight to nine thousand men a week, including service men, using its facilities...
...like, Pittsburgh's wide-awake W. J. Dillner Transfer Co. applied to operate an air-cargo line to haul household goods anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska. The company wants to fly pianos, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, etc., would start out with four cargo planes (five-and ten-ton load capacity) and six gliders (two-or three-ton loads...
...fact that Henry Stimson hoped the people would learn: the civilians in the U.S. war effort were not pulling their share of the load on the farm or in the factory. His remedy, now also before Congress: a general service act which (as in Britain) would put every man and woman on call for service in the war economy...
...Regeneration is no theological formula. It is a function of spiritual progress-a part of the evolutionary spiritual growth of the race. That repentance is needed now for rebirth ... to lessen its load of sin. Sin is only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend...