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...Presidents. "My favorites were George Washington (though he seemed too good to be true), Andrew Jackson (for his refusal to clean the British officer's boots), Abraham Lincoln (he was such a good wrestler), and Andrew Johnson (the runaway apprentice)." But the profession that enthralled him longest-more even than stagecoach driver or railroadman or lawyer-was that of printer...
President Truman sent his first peacetime message to Congress. In 16,000 workaday words-the longest Presidential message since Theodore Roosevelt's 20,000-word document in 1901-he laid out his program for peace and prosperity...
...Slowest to reconvert was Chrysler Corp., which had to wait longest for cancellation of its war contracts. Chrysler hoped to get the first Plymouths off the line...
Next day only 13 of the House's 435 members were on the floor when Speaker Sam Rayburn banged his gavel, adjourned the House until Monday, Oct. 8. The recess was the longest any wartime House had planned. Members can be called back into session on three days' notice in an emergency (but at least 100 were already off, or soon would be, on extended overseas trips...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...