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First official indication that Paraguay had followed Bolivia into totalitarian, anti-U.S. Argentina's growing bloc came from Washington. There the Paraguayan Embassy announced a change in Foreign Ministers, piously said that the shift "in no way alters the directives of the Government...
Born in Washington, D.C., Eric Johnston came by his faith in individual enterprise in the standard U.S. tradition. His tubercular father moved to Montana, then to Spokane, Wash., then on again, this time leaving his wife and small son to shift for themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service...
Last week Committee members were winding up the hearings in the East, preparing to shift to the West Coast. They had taken reams of testimony from ship operators, builders, designers, masters and Maritime Commission officials. They had discovered that serious structural failures have developed in only 62 of the 1,917 Liberties delivered up to Feb. 1. But until the C.I.O. National Maritime Union's President Joseph Curran took the stand last week they had heard only hazy, technical explanations of the cracks...
...corrected; that with the exception of 126 Bureau-type lighters which the Bureau of Ships says it completed because the materials had already been cut and partially fabricated, no lighters of the Bureau type were manufactured; and that all manufacturers holding contracts for Bureau-type lighters were ordered to shift to the Higgins type...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...