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...first bleak days at Pearl Harbor, one of Nimitz' main tasks was to balance the fleet, set it on course for Tokyo and keep it there. Nimitz became to the fleet what a gyrocompass is to a ship...
Next of course came the one long, bleak and wearisome week of finals to be followed by the present week of worries, the worst phases of the war on the River front yet to be encountered. Heavy fog prevailed over Baker in many quarters for most of the period and continued overcast is now freely predicted until the spell is broken by the official reports due in a week...
More Snow & Ice? Whether the 72-hour embargo had given the railroads time enough to dig themselves out of their trouble was still a question this week. Long trains of empties were snaking across the bleak landscape, headed away from the congested terminals. Dozens of passenger trains were canceled, and their high-wheeled engines ignobly coupled to strings of empty boxcars. By week's end the roads hoped to have caught up again, unless...
...often done before since the Falkland Islands were taken from her in 1833, Argentina last week officially called upon Britain to return the bleak, strategic archipelago thinly stocked with hardy sheep and hardheaded Scots. Britain was not expected to reply...
Cotton traders wanted proof that the plan would work, but like Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, head of the Cotton Textile Institute, and almost everyone else who had soberly pondered cotton's bleak future, they were prompt to endorse it in principle. At 22? a lb. the-U.S. cotton growers have priced themselves out of the world market, have come recklessly close to pricing themselves out of the domestic market. Government warehouses bulge with 6,500,000 bales of surplus cotton. And the price of rayon is now so close to that of cotton that many of the larger...