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Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin gave the only possible answer. Said he, broadcasting to the U.S. (see p. 27): "[Australia will] rock the enemy back on his heels" . . . though the cost may be "the end of much that we have painfully and slowly built in our 150 years of existence, but even though all of it go there will be Australians fighting on Australian soil...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...
...when he was supposed to visit the White House, he arrived at his office with muddy shoes, rolled-up pant legs, two ties hitched together in place of a belt. He had been on a stroll in muddy Rock Creek Park, had forgotten to change...
Last week thousands of U.S. ski fans crammed the sidelines at Lake Placid's Rim Rock run. Like most downhill meets, the races were divided into two sections: the straight-down (popularly called the downhill) and the slalom,* a zigzag course defined by pairs of flags which skiers must thread...
Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped...