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...loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel on which Brindisi is the spur. In that instep, in the great naval base of Taranto, lay the bulk of Italy's fleet...
...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
...plants by stopping all design changes once a plane was in the production line, military fussiness having caused incredible delays in both British and U. S. factories. He concentrated, like Hermann Göring, on a few proved types. With recalcitrant manufacturers he used what an assistant called "spur and whip, and sometimes a bag of oats." Every manufacturer found himself accountable to one of Lord Beaverbrook's committeemen, at first weekly, then once...
...these cases the Administration's methods had a spur-of-the-moment look, gave no hint of how prices might be controlled in the face of a real inflation. But last week that hint was given. The offending commodity: chemical wood pulp used for paper, rayon, explosives. The method: a round-table agreement. Franklin Roosevelt, in describing it, clearly indicated that his Defense Advisory Commission had established a precedent...
...Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...