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...Stepchild's Father. No shrinking violet by nature, "Nate" Twining had nevertheless long been one of the comparative unknowns of the air wars until he turned up in the B-29 spotlight. With some reason, he and the men of his old Fifteenth, overshadowed in the news by the Britain-based Eighth (now on the way to the Pacific), had called themselves "The Forgotten Air Force...
...long as the war was on in Europe, UNRRA was the rankest stepchild at the combined United Nations food-&-supply table. It got only what the military and Lend-Lease did not want, and it had to fight to get that. Its allocations from the various combined boards in Washington were merely "hunting licenses" to get the allocated supply if UNRRA could find it lying around loose...
Druge, like many another Westerner, believes that there exists a vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing...
...Jackson, Miss, last week, Banker Fred B. Smith rose to keynote the Democratic State Convention. He actually key-noted the mood of the whole sullen South: "Now is the time ... to let the Democrats of the nation know that the South is not the stepchild of the Party...
Among Army airmen major credit for the Marauder's comeback goes to slim, youthful (38) Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, commander of the Marauder squadrons in Britain.* Within six months Anderson and his staff reshaped the Marauder outfit from a misused, ineffective stepchild into a high-stepping member of the Eighth Air Force...