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...Hard. Hand-to-hand is not only rough & tumble but it defies the basic principle of sport: obey the rules. A combination of dirty boxing, dirty wrestling and dirty jujitsu, it teaches a fighter how to whip the other fellow, rules or no. If a cadet plays too fair, is ready to shake hands or even admits that his opponent is better, he may "bilge" (flunk) the course...
With this basic training, the Navy's seahawks should be the answer to a football coach's dream. But the Navy's Tex Oliver (St. Mary's), Bernie Bierman (Iowa), Ray Wolf (Georgia) and Jim Crowley (North Carolina) were not crowing last week. Reason: most of the 3,500 cadets now in training will have graduated by the eve of the football season. Cadets will then be arriving and leaving every two weeks. Barring this slight difficulty with personnel, by mid-October the Navy's preflight football teams should be rolling like Army...
...basic trouble is that butadiene can be produced in too many different ways: from the products of oil refining; from coke plants; from ethyl alcohol made either synthetically or out of such farm products as wheat, molasses, potatoes, etc. So synthetic rubber became still another battleground on which farm "chemurgy" proponents hurled their imprecations at the oil refiners...
Petroleum Technologies messed up the buna raw-materials program, too. The basic refinery raw material for butadiene is butylene, and butylene can be had either circuitously by extracting it from butane (natural gas) or directly, by skimming it off refinery gas. For the first five months after Pearl Harbor it looked as if the refineries couldn't skim off nearly enough butylene without at the same time losing out on their necessary production of high octane gas. That threw them back, willy-nilly, on butane, even though it takes much more steel and money...
These actions did credit to The Auk's aggressive spirit, but they did not alter the basic situation: Rommel was defending his front with infantry and artillery; the bulk of his armored forces were withdrawn from action for rest and repair...