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...Solomons base, the U.S. Navy issued a stern order: commanders of naval vessels, particularly PT boats, must not exceed 25 knots through the inlet. Reason: the wake at higher speeds (as delighted small-boat skippers had discovered) washed the Army privies off their stilts, dropped the establishments and their occupants into the water. Also forbidden: paint-up pictures of privies on small-boat bridges, with scores marked underneath...
Dangerous Living. Today the infantry comprises less than a fifth of the U.S. Army (the Air Forces and the Service Forces both exceed it in manpower). Public appreciation of the infantry has lagged far behind, partly due to the mistaken notion that the Air Forces had the most dangerous job. No less an authority than Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, is responsible for the statement that thus far in World War II the infantry takes "more than half our total battle losses." The infantryman also "endures great hardships, he gets more tired, he sleeps less...
...third annual report, the Committee flatly stated: "The bulk of the initial [war] equipment and supplies will have been manufactured within 60 to 90 days. . . . We may expect cancellations or cutbacks . . . within a few months to exceed new contracts." Then, the Committe roundly damned what Lazarus had called "a system of quotas or cartelization...
Pointing out that 80 per cent of the plant capacity of the industry is government owned and that stockholder's capital is only equal to eight per cent of the volume of sales, the report continued to show " the small margin by which current assets exceed current liabilities...
...School, which does not depend on draft-age students, was booming despite the war, hoped to exceed its 1936 record of 4,034 registrants. The school had come a long way from its small, but distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...