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...months the guinea pig quintet aided George Wald, Faculty instructor in Biology and his Fatigue Laboratory staff at the Business School to carry on research for the Army, according to the latest issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...deficiency in vitamin A was partly compensated for by doses containing the other minerals essential to good health so that no detrimental effects on the "guinea pigs" could be detected...
...planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units, which had reached Australia planeless, were now ready for action. The Philippine and Tokyo raids lifted morale, while the Allied raids on New Guinea and New Britain carried on a positive defense - keeping the Japanese in enough confusion so that they apparently could not mount an attack, at least not without drawing on forces they are now using in other areas...
Some U.S. observers were so optimistic as to say that last week was when the tide turned. They believed that United Nations forces could now retake New Guinea and New Britain any time they want - though they probably would not move until a larger offensive is possible. Whether or not this was overoptimism, it marked a turn for the better: conditions were no longer so bad that all officers in the field had to think in terms of retreat...
...balance is shifting. Brigadier General Royce and his U.S. bombing raiders were attacked by very few Jap planes over the Philippines. Over New Guinea and Australia, the United Nations have aerial superiority for the present, and there are other signs that the Burma front and the Bay of Bengal (see p. 20) are about all that Japan's air services can handle at one time. Japan's air superiority in the Bay of Bengal is the smallest she has yet had in any important area...