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Last week the Lend-Leasers-to-Africa made a big point of the acknowledged fact that the shipments now under way or contemplated are only a drop in the bucket compared to total U.S. supplies. But in Manhattan the retail trade was buzzing with known purchases of 150,000 pairs of $4 & $5 men's and women's shoes and rumored purchases of 3,000,000 yards of rayon. In terms of current and threatened civilian shortages in the U.S., such sudden subtractions from the market are not a drop in the bucket-if for no other reason...
Burditt, who tallied 25 points before the evening was over, went to work from his pivot post, and with his peculiar under-handed bucket shot, succeeded in either drawing two fouls or dropping a deuce almost every time he was fed. George Dillon's hook shots from the foul line helped the Crimson rise, and a one-handed jump shot by Hugh Hyde with seconds remaining in the first half put them ahead 21 to 19 at intermission time...
...rout assumed gigantic proportions, Brown removed Burditt, who caged nine of twelve fouls, and his cohorts, and the second five took over. Don Lutze played his usual strong defensive game, and Hugh Hyde's pivot shots in the Crimson's double-bucket system began to find the range later in the contest...
Remedies. There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...