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...fulfilled, but OPM officials do not forget that since last fall they have revised the schedules of monthly deliveries three times, and every revision has been downward-from hopes toward realities. Early last October they anticipated an April 1941 production of 2,068 planes (450 combat aircraft and 1,159 noncombat planes for the U.S. Army and Navy; 429 for the British) and June 1941 production...
Earlier in the afternoon the third Varsity heavy crews of Harvard and Yale will meet in combat for the Steward's Cup. The first Freshmen heavies and the Eliot House first crew are also entered in this race, which should fall easily to the Yardling crewmen...
...miles off the coast.) The President said estimates were meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality Act barred merchant ships from the combat zone, U.S. warships were free to enter the forbidden waters...
Next job was a landing party exercise. The newfangled combat teams (chief components: infantry and artillery) were piled on to the big transports and the attack forces (secret in arms and organization) loaded on the speedy ex-destroyers. One sunset the whole fleet sailed over the horizon. At dawn it was seizing a beach head on another Caribbean island. The First was gone a month on its full-scale exercise. Units of the Atlantic Fleet worked with them. Admiral Ernest Joseph King looked his approval as the landing parties were called away and the bronzed, hornyhanded sea soldiers went over...
From this juncture the camera frequently scans pages from the Centuries. Most favored prophecy: "The young lion will conquer the old one upon the field in a single combat. He will pierce his eye in a golden cage, who will then die a dreadful death." This meant nothing until Henry II died after a joust with the Count of Montgomery. A lance penetrated his golden visor, pierced his eye. That established Nostradamus as a prophet...