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...long-cherished St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is now a $277,000,000 item in a $990,000,000 catch-all pork-barrel bill. Its prospects are not good. The bill is buried deep down in the House calendar, with a conservative Rules Committee sitting on its chest. If it ever staggers up, bitter, bespectacled Representative Alfred Beiter of Buffalo, N.Y. (who sees his home town as a deserted village if the bill is passed) says he has 256 votes pledged against...
This off his chest, Comrade Shvernik and his 13 comrade commandos prepared for the trip home, pleased that their invasion of Britain had been so well received...
...spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess boys were heroes under fire. A British officer, said Captain Lovette, told him that neither at Dunkirk nor Crete had brave men fought better than they fought at Pearl Harbor...
...added an emergency factor to the annual Community Chest drive, and Faculty and employees of the University cannot be expected to make up all of the difference. Both have contributed more than ever before, and students can well afford to give up a couple of trips to the movies, of the price of a quart of Scotch, in order to help Harvard reach its quota. There are only two more days to go, and if the University fails to make up the $11,000 still lacking, most of the blame will lie upon the hands of the student body...
Their chief mistake was that they thought of defense as a sort of glorified Community-chest drive. Business, as they saw it, was glad to contribute. But to afford the contribution, business had to go on making its living in the usual...