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...soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world does gas shortage mean half so drastic a change in the basic pattern of human life, and grousing and chiseling are far different things from a storm of opposition. There was every sign that, at its first real taste of the hardships of war, the U.S. people would give a good account of themselves...
Into the basket on Smith's desk, on a typical day, may pop any number of neat typewritten notes signed F. D. R.-each meaning a new chore. For in wartime Washington, with its myriads of new officials, its changing pattern of authority, its good spots and bad, Smith & Coy are the doers on whom the President relies...
Patiently, when the excitement abated, Admiral Chester William Nimitz pulled all the threads together into the big pattern that spelled victory. That particular task was over; now for the next one. He busied himself with the endless detail of new plans for operations over his vast domain, from Alaska to the continental shelf of Australia. There would be more battles, other carefully calculated sallies against the Jap. Some would be victories. Some might be defeats. Chester William Nimitz would send out the orders-and wait...
...Japanese were last week clamping a chill pattern of subjugation over the still-warm framework of military conquest. All the world knows that Hitler's European New Order is failing. It will be a long time before the world knows how Japan's New Order will fare in Asia, for the Japanese have a genius for suppression. But by last week two facts began to glimmer through the huggermugger murk: 1) the Japanese were stealing everything in sight; 2) they were treating prisoners surprisingly well...
...city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must "step back" as they rose. Architects were horrified at such restrictions on "individual initiative." But Visualizer Ferriss, who got his early architectural experience sketching full-size details for the Woolworth Building, evolved a basic skyscraper form which became the pattern for such buildings as the Shelton Hotel, one of the first important stepped-back skyscrapers, and later for much of the New York skyline. While adopting the stepped-back skyscraper form, New York did not observe Ferriss' plea that skyscrapers be placed half a mile apart. Of Big City...