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...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...
...suggest a U.S. buying commission handling the whole deal, and directing policy to bleed from Jap territory essentials which cannot be imported by air cargo or even over a reopened Burma Road. This cannot be done with Chinese dollars because their high velocity forces them back into free China; likewise U.S. dollars eventually do the same. Gold with real value will go underground, and cannot be effectively outlawed by the Japs. Even if passing into Jap hands, its use to them will be negligible as they have already sufficient (gold) for their own purposes...
...Five Jap destroyers and a cargo ship were spotted steaming toward New Georgia, apparently to reinforce frequently bombed Munda...
Piedmonts for months, followed by Kools, Raleighs and even some brands of which they had never heard. They knew that those brands took up just as much cargo space as the big-five cigarets most of them had been accustomed to smoking. Troops in England spread a rumor (false) that the U.S. Government had taken over a plant in Richmond, was making its own cigarets and calling them "Chelsea." This probably sprang up months ago when soldiers ordering their favorite brands were given Chelseas in the ratio of three to four of the favorites...
...work, as the taut indifference of the strip-builders indicated, was urgent. How urgent was further pointed up this week by a Navy announcement that U.S. naval vessels had intercepted two escorted cargo ships headed for the Aleutians. The two merchantmen were not particularly significant. Their escort was. It consisted of no less than four cruisers and four destroyers. Such an inordinately heavy shield suggested that the Japs wanted to be sure those ships got through...