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They had called the turn on raw-materials shortages, had laid down the facts of the rubber famine four months before the famed Baruch report. One single investigation, of graft and waste in Army camp building, had saved the U.S. $250,000,000 (according to the Army's own Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell). Their total savings ran into billions, partly because of what their agents had ferreted out in the sprawling war program, partly because their hooting curiosity was a great deterrent to waste...
...wife, mother and guardian, besides being his secretary and assistant in his work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate man's hunger for any conceivable "cure," he for a long time carried "raw potatoes on his person, with the idea that they would collect all the poisonous fluid accumulated in his body...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...
...effort to induct and train new recruits to man our merchant ships, the Marltime Commission has been sending a steady stream of raw material, all volunteers, through its four months' school at Sheepshead Bay, New York. All amateur sailors, when inducted at local offices of the Commission, must agree to serve at sea for a full year after they have completed their training in elementary seamanship. Physical requirements for applicants are especially tough, much similar to regular Army specifications...
...North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather play the piano than anything else-once his stiff, raw, skingrafted hands were well enough...