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...into effect-for fear that the public would demand its half a pound per week, when retailers do not have it to sell. But the Senate committee will be far more daring than the Administration if it has the nerve to tackle the political interests which have gotten the U.S. into its present sugar...
...dissatisfaction. It has begun to get around that would-be officers are almost automatically told about the Business School, the Marine Corps, and V-7; that very little is learned that cannot be found in pamphlets the press, or the heads of fairly-well-informed acquaintances. It has also gotten around that there are opportunities for officer training that Mr. Casner's office either has not seen fit to speak of or else just doesn't know anything about...
...inability and slowness to get aid to the Dutch East Indies, we have jeopardized our whole strategic and economic position in the war. We have been shut off from many of the raw materials on which our industry depends, and at the same time our enemies have gotten many of the resources which they have needed to carry...
Upjumped Ramspeck, his patience gone. In the Senate the bill had been debated fully, fully reported in the papers, then discussed and approved again by the House. Cried Ramspeck: "Why did you not object [then]? I say that to every other member who has gotten up on this floor and demagogued about this bill...
...night and day, staying at the firing lines and not just visiting them. Of nearly 30 American chaplains, every one has been near falling bombs or whizzing bullets or found what it means when the enemy has continual air superiority. Many is the chaplain, dodging dive-bombers, who has gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers. Chaplains are doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions and giving out Bibles to carrying dead and wounded under fire. Baptist Chaplain Lieut...