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Three weeks after opening the second Madagascar campaign (TIME, Sept. 21), Britain was in possession of a key island that controls the southern gateway to India and the Middle East, a source of graphite, rice and beef, a base where, had it fallen to the Axis, the Luftwaffe and Japanese air force might have...
Wellesley "Beef Trust...
...based near the Common report a flourishing season, the Brighton lonely hearts organization seems to be satisfying few of the officers' social desires. In one case, a prospective dance was stymied by a dispute among the trainees as to whom to invite. Claiming that Wellesley had "pawned off a beef trust on us the last time," a determined minority held out for Simmons, Bouve, or even Radcliffe...
...great leader to have during the blitz. His personality was all roast beef and there was something of the thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt that they were seeing the very image of a modern, improved, but deeply traditional and indomitable John Bull. His crusty vigor also suggested the coat of mail of a new St. George, fronting the snorting dragon, Hitler ("that wicked...
With drastic curtailment of meat allowances through a federal rationing system becoming imminent, Harvard faces the same reduction in beef-eating as the rest of the area, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, announced yesterday...