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...purpose in quoting the above is not to pour praise on a man who certainly doesn't need it, much less crave it, but assure others as it has myself, that, after all, the Government is not going in for dancers and artists as recent publicity would indicate, but is really getting he-men for he-jobs...
...after Easter. Frankie has been pleasing the regular paying guests and bringing a lot of new fans into the Savoy as well, but apparently he didn't always preserve the most amicable relations with his boss. But he nevertheless deserves a really good job where crowds of citizens will pour in to see and hear him. A situation in some favorable New York spot, perhaps, in competition with Teddy Wilson and the Chicagoans at Nick's, would really prove his mettle...
Once Detroit's conversion to war is complete, when the lines are all moving with the precision of timing and economy of motion that Detroit borrowed from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto industry will employ a million men & women, twice as many as it ever did, will make a billion dollars' worth of armaments a month. If Armageddon is to be decided in Detroit, Armageddon...
...employes in the armed services, including over 1,500 reporters and editors-Editor & Publisher obligingly published the figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army...
...Pound or Pour? Sample military gadget is a machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...