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...Training. Early last March General Arnold tossed the problem of setting up such a system into the lap of a staff assistant, Colonel Byron E. Gates, promising his complete backing if there were squawks from traditionalists whose toes got stepped on. With the help of a statistics-minded young Texan, Lieut. Colonel Charles Thornton, he set to work. By mid-April the program had been set up, arrangements made with Harvard Business School to train cadets...
Feats of the 19th furnish the best evidence to a country suddenly thrown into war that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...
...pushing his bulldozer down from the north, saw trees falling toward him. Over the fallen trees from the south Private Alfred Jalufka of Texas clawed and jerked his own bulldozer. The highway crews at last had met-20 miles east of the Alaska-Yukon border. The Negro and the Texan leaped from their machines and shook hands. The seven-month job was almost done. Then they backed their bulldozers and began widening the trail they had opened...
...truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation in Alaska is serious but not alarming. . . . The military plan is to pulverize Kiska...
William Lockhart Clayton, 62, was famed in his own right as the biggest U.S. cotton merchant. Now, working in fellow Texan Jesse Jones's RFC, he is seldom heard of, never quoted, almost never seen outside his office. But through his big, able hands pass all the multi-zeroed dealings of Defense Supplies Corp., which trades vital loans for Latin American raw materials, and other jobs...