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This was the dire question that exercised the broadcasting industry's biggest bull session, the Institute for Education by Radio. Held annually at Columbus, Ohio, since 1930 under the sponsorship of Ohio State University, the conference's first twelve meetings served mainly as occasions for bestowing honors, discussing knacks and know-how, airing pet peeves...
...Engineer Reproduction Plant, Washington, D. C. is in dire need of civilian personnel for geographic research. Seniors or graduates with courses in mapmaking, geography, or applied geology may very well qualify for this work. It is not essential that an applicant have a great deal of geographical knowledge or skill as a draftsman. The chief characteristics to be sought are adaptability and a graphic sense of what is conveyed by maps...
...years the world has predicted dire things for China if the Burma Road were cut. Now it was cut; the Burma oilfields from which China got most of her oil were all but gone. What were the results...
...Defense Regulations (which allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
Rangoon was in dire danger. Some 40,000 Japanese in the front lines, 30,000 more in reserve pressed toward the last of three rivers which barred their advance. They had crossed the Salween. They put bicycle scouts in Burmese dress, sent them worming ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which...