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Outside the priority list, selectees and National Guard enlisted men will be discharged as fast as the Army can get replacements from new drafts and enlistments. Best news to this big slice of the service was that the Army would try to send some home after 14 months, would try to hold the average of active duty to 18 months...
...General Amos Alfred Fries, 68-year-old retired chief of chemical warfare, won a sharp skirmish with District of Columbia authorities over the height of his privet hedge. They said it was three feet higher than the three-foot maximum for hedges growing on public property, ordered him to slice it in half. The general refused. Came men with yardsticks, who found only four of its 14 bushes were in the public domain. The authorities relaxed in silence. ∙ ∙ Adolf Hitler has ordered the former castle of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Posen (part of Poland 1919-39) remodeled, plans...
When credit is being handed out for this tremendous basic achievement, the Secretary of War will get a great slice...
Chomping a sizable slice of humble pie, Secretary of War Stimson last week apologized to Senator Wheeler for his "near treason" blast of the week before, admitted that he had gone off halfcocked...
Like most figures, this one was too simple. Since a great slice of new military aircraft building at the end of 1940 was trainers-badly needed by the Air Forces but useless for combat-the figures behind this figure were more significant...