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...stagnation. A 'sit down' army is subject to collapse at the first sign of an enemy effort. An army that stops to tie its shoestrings seldom regains the,initiative. I couldn't allow my forces to become soft and dormant. I couldn't let them slip into a condition that eventually would cause horrendous casualties. So the Eighth Army kept needling the enemy with limited objective attacks...
...four-page contract included with the order warned the Chamber about such things as discrimination in employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor disputes and the loading, bracing and blocking of freight cars. A pink slip pointed out that a variation of 10% in the quantity ordered would be unacceptable, but paragraph 31 of the Provisions said such a variation was O.K. Last week the Chamber wearily decided that "the red tape has already cost the taxpayers enough." Gratis to the Air Force, "properly loaded, blocked...
...Price had apparently decided that nobody was really clear, and seemed to be pitching the ball toward the sidelines, out of danger. But Dick Danneman of the Lions managed to slip away from his cover and turned a "wasted" throw of the Lions managed to slip away from his cover and turned a "wasted" throw into a 60-yard touchdown play...
...defensive lack popped up just ten seconds before the game ended, when the Crimson had apparently stopped an 82-yard Holy Cross drive on the two. Halfback Paul Gallo ran around left end and into two Harvard players, who not only failed to down him, but permitted him to slip away and score standing...
...Digging. Pennsylvania's Republican Representative John P. Saylor thought the Harvey affair represented something more than a departmental slip. Before Congress he termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions...