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...call for volunteers for Mountain Troop duty, the Army has requested that men who are good physical specimens, preferably with some experience in skilng, rock climbing, or wilderness activity, sign up at the War Service Information Bureau, Little 12, by Wednesday January 13, Bureau Director Eliot Perkins '23, reported last night...
...Mexican hills rode an armed band. It descended on the sleepy town of Miguel Auza last week and scattered a troop of young Mexican conscripts drilling in the square. The bandits occupied the town for several hours until Government troops arrived. The Mayor, his son and several others were killed; many were wounded. During the same afternoon bands attacked the towns of Rio Grande and Nieves in the State of Zacatecas. There was no looting, but many civilians were killed and more were wounded...
...Suite 354, under the agile direction of George S. Kaufman, troop susceptible generals, admirals and rubber czars, footsore strangers in search of a bed, snooty wives in search of their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...
Nowadays, your conscience is immaterial--your time just comes. So you might as well resign yourself to being crowded into tarp-covered trucks and troop trains, and to forgetting those pet green and yellow ties and oxford shoes...
...production but in transportation (see map). As the Army predicted, it was above all the year of logistics. A few hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles were holed into sidings to let the first troop and munition trains thunder westward to the Coast. From then on the rails, which during 1940 and 1941 looked ripe for socialization to New Deal enthusiasts, turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion to 50 billion, or over 70%; freight...