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...indicated that the occupying Americans had to fight bitterly for three weeks against a spirit army which moved in from Attu. In the South Pacific, too, Japanese spirits "have tangled with the enemy, causing many of them mental derangements and others to kill themselves as a result of nervous breakdown and morbid fear...
...breakdown of the figures reveals that the Navy won all eight of the boxing bouts, gained a 46 to 20 margin in the swimming meet, and captured the basketball title 48 to 30. The Army was triumphant in wrestling, four matches to three...
Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
...first six months last year, train accidents were up 32% over the same period in 1942, to a new high point of 8,209. What is equally significant, those caused by breakdown of equipment were UP 39%, those caused by improper maintenance up 47%. The grand total for all classes of accidents: 28,857 people injured (2,429 passengers on trains, 21,835 em' ployes on duty, the rest trespassers, etc.), 2,349 killed (41 passengers on trains, 491 employes on duty, the remainder trespassers...
...breakdown of British propaganda in the Dominions (especially Australia) has been under inquiry for some time. Hughes's charges were not the first that someone had bungled badly. BEPA could not be certain who the bungler was, but it knew who could tell them: carrot-topped Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information. OWI men could understand his predicement...