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...such thing as a reservation. The railroads are in constant use moving troops, and evacuating increasingly large numbers of women and children to rural regions where they will be safe from the buzz bombs.' It is a customary thing nowadays to stand on trains for even the longest distance trips, and in many cases on cannot...
Wallace and Chapple collected two hits apiece for the Stahl outfit, and Bob Cappacio's triple was the longest...
...voting. He had two ideas: 1) keep Negroes down, 2) the price of cotton up. On this platform Cotton Ed was kept in office as a U.S. Senator for six terms, long enough to become the dean of the Senate. This week he also became the man with the longest continuous Senatorial record in U.S. history.* But Cotton Ed was in no mood to celebrate: he had been beaten for a seventh term in last week's South Carolina primary...
...hunter who could handle a boat as smartly as he could bring down a wild duck. He wanted his new wife to become "a killer of bears." One hour after their wedding, Bud and Connie boarded a ship for Alaska, bent on a canoe trip down the Yukon, third longest river in North America...
Demobilization. When the war ends, mothers and wives should not expect their men back soon. Probability: a slow demobilization, only about 250,000 a month. One Army school of thought (including most soldiers) favors demobilizing veteran troops first. Another favors holding them longest, because they are better experienced. Likely compromise: some veterans will be kept to "salt" green troops. One sure bet: veteran jungle fighters will be demobilized as soon as possible, for reasons of health as well as morale. Even after Germany surrenders, the Army expects to keep 2,000,000 troops in Europe. Probable size of the eventual...