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...become so shabby that it was torn down and replaced by the present Palmer House III. Usually a money-maker (except in 1930 and 1931), the Palmer House has lately roused complaints among Chicagoans that it suffers from the pains of age, a crochety management and decrepit service. (One resident used to wire his wife from his office because he said he could not reach her by phone through the hotel switchboard...
...Keep us humble in the day of victory, make us wise in the presence of great problems, strong and brave in face of any danger, and sympathetic and generous as we face the appalling need of a war-torn world...
Spartanburg, S.C. was torn between pride and embarrassment this autumn when a local boy named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero...
...truth was that the Army, still ahead of its redeployment schedule, was working with might & main to get troops home. The Army was being torn apart in answer to public demand, and would have to be rebuilt from the ground up after redeployment had been completed. Last week the War Department announced that by February all troops eligible for redeployment will be home from Atlantic theaters; by next June, from the Pacific. To speed the job, ten aircraft carriers, 26 cruisers, and six battleships will soon be run into service as troop carriers...
...will take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...