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...never heard of PeeWee, much less heard him play, you are missing a great experience in life. Even if you don't like jazz, even if you think Glenn Miller is the greatest thing on earth, it is worth your precious while to spend an evening listening to Russell. For PeeWee is a real character. Not an Artier Shaw who points his clarinet way up high to impress crowds, but a PeeWee Russell who leans way back and closes his eyes because he can play better that...
...trips have brought no revolutionary changes in production; but in an hour's visit he finds a dozen ways to save precious time and critical materials. Typical Knudsen touches...
Tungsten to mix with steel is also so critically short that some of the U.S.'s precious air space on trips back from China is being devoted to shipping in a few more tons...
...have not yet begun to fight." "We want to wait until after the elections." Such statements are worth their salt in reminding us again what is the most precious machinery we have in this country-that delicate and irreplaceable equipment which carries highest priority ratings on all time and material: our well greased political machines...
Military men knew that a premature second front held terrifying possibilities of early and catastrophic failure. They calculated grimly the carefully trained men that might be lost, the precious materiel that might have to be abandoned to the Germans. While the civilian speakers waved the grim possibilities away, military men had to face them. It was not a pretty prospect...