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...them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government divisions then. Now some of those troops had been transferred to Yunnan, 800 miles away, to stand guard against the Japanese in French Indo-China. In their place were Szechwanese provincial troops who might blow up in a pinch...
...attractive, everybody seemed happy. Trouble started when President Roosevelt also appointed Tugwell the island's Governor. Tugwell indicated he would take a leave from the chancellorship and let a subordinate run the university until another Governor was found to relieve him. But the students wanted no pinch hitter as chancellor...
...Fond of sweets, too, he is. What you call candy over here. Keeps a bottle of sweets on the bridge. Well, we're fond of sweets ourselves and every now and then we manage to pinch one or two. It's a matter of keepin' one eye on the bottle of sweets and one on the Admiral like. There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?' And old Splash Guts answers...
...this month's beginning, only 2% of non-defense manufacturers responding to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey reported that they had felt the pinch of priorities. But at last week's end new answers raised the average to 10-15%. Nine out of ten others expected drastic curtailment within the next six months. This meant non-defense plants darkened in one part of a town while defense industries worked round the clock in another, whole cities knocked out while other cities boomed, depression and prosperity side-by-side...
...Army had some real mechanized artillery to show last week-artillery that was actually self-propelled and could, at a pinch, fire on the enemy while racing into action. Experimental and soon to be improved though they were, these new weapons represented a tremendous advance over the Army's earlier, so-called "mechanized" artillery, most of which is still hauled along backwards, like Civil War guns, except that trucks and tractors are hitched where horses used...