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...Swing Shift. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Walter S. Gates suggested establishment of a night court to handle divorce suits for men & women busy all day in war plants...
After a year of wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
...Vichy the shift of power meant quick promotions for the violently pro-Nazi; quick resignations for others; for still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
...United Nations, the Vichy power shift meant that France might re-enter the war as a military ally of Germany. Laval spoke bombastically of a legion of youth to recapture Algeria. There was still talk of a quick peace treaty "guaranteeing" the French Empire. Such a treaty, superseding the armistice violated when the Germans moved into Unoccupied France, would make military collaboration "legal...
...Sunday the keyed-up swing shift at Richmond got started. The first 200-ton piece of double-bottomed keel section of the Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was hoisted on to the keel blocks. After that things moved swiftly...