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...Diplomatic type he is, too. They spin a yarn about the time he was goin' down to Chequers to visit Winnie Churchill. He'd just been made a full admiral and he was standin' in a railway station wearin' his brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked...
...Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...
...Department's bill was open admission that the Quartermaster Corps had done a substandard job of housing soldiers, building flying fields, providing industrial facilities, storehouses, new roads and railway trackage for the great national defense emergency. It was recognition of what seemed an obvious fact: that the Engineers, staffed by the cream of West Point graduating classes of the past 20 years, buttressed by crack reservists and National Guardsmen from the country's best technical jobs, could do the job with vastly more efficiency...
...months the British have watched with alarm a steady flow of Germans into Iran (TiME, Aug. 11). Some were "specialists" supposed to be working for Iran's new Trans-Iranian Railway, in factories and public works. Some were "archeologists" filled with a wide-eyed interest in ancient Persia. Some wore only the moth-eaten disguise of tourists. According to British calculation, Iran had a tight little nucle us of 3,000 Nazis by the middle of August...
...guns-or-butter argument, the businessmen tended to favor guns only-though not overwhelmingly. A policy of curtailing consumer demand for scarce articles was supported by 59.1%; in favor of rapid expansion to meet both emergency and normal civilian demand were 39.2%. Notably on the anti-expansionist side were railway and utility men. But not all railway executives believe that their own present capacity is enough; 19.6% did not believe that they could handle this fall's traffic peak without delays...