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...said panting, his fatigues dripping with sweat and his arms so weary they dangled at his side, "over there, there is much shot and much hell. We are doing the best we can. We'll get 'em out." Scribner couldn't remember how many trips he had made across the valley...
Ever since President Truman restricted housing credit a month ago, the building industry has been in a sweat. The Government was going to halt all house construction, so the rumors went, or at least impose such stiff controls that only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...
...feeling, for the first time in living memory, that much of the U.S. might be devastated in an all-out war. This didn't put people in a cold sweat; it did put them in a mood to buckle down...
...Cause to Sweat. The prime blame for the leak should have been put on Howard Handleman, International News Service bureau chief in Tokyo, who wrote the first dispatch announcing that fresh U.S. troops had arrived in Korea to the tune of two brass bands. Handleman's report violated a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they...
Army Public Information officers, hot under the collar at Handleman's story, were given fresh cause to sweat only a day later. Spurred on by INS reports that some of the ist Marine Division had reached Korea, the Associated Press announced the arrival of the division nearly 24 hours before it actually happened. Army men were worried, too, by front-line stories detailing U.S. losses and plans-a practice for which the U.P.'s Robert Miller had been reprimanded early in July...