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Victory at Midway intoxicated Hawaii. Last week the hangover set in. A morning-after jolt came from Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons, Commander of the Hawaiian Department, who warned islanders against the "false sense of security" prevalent since the Japanese Fleet was repulsed. "To assume the enemy will not return in force," said he, "is the most dangerous kind of wishful thinking." To strip the motley-populated isles for action, he urged all non-war-occupied women, children, elders and invalids to take advantage of the Army Transport Service and leave at once. A few days later, U.S. bombers struck...
...unforeseen scholastic jolt enabled Yale's Freshman golf team to upset the previously unbeaten Yardling linkmen 5 to 4 yesterday at Belmont Country Club. But the Eli linkmen were only the vanguard of a Bulldog Cub invasion, for Yale's Freshman track and tennis teams are in town today on the Crimson racqueteers and runners...
...Strict limits on credit and installment buying, to cut down spending and keep citizens solvent for the post-war jolt...
Continuing in his discussion of the motion picture industry's part in the war effort, Douglas asserted that even with bombings and incidents such as Dunkrik to jolt it out of its lethargy, it took the English two and a half years to obtain real concerted action. Because the war is still so far away in the minds of many Americans, he continued, the spirit necessary to obtain all-out civilion effort will probably require an even longer period to attain in this country...
Even to such hard-boiled dreamers as the aviation engineers, this prediction was a jolt. The world's two biggest planes -the Army's much-touted Douglas Big bomber and Martin's own flying boat Mars-both tip the scales at 140,000 Ib. Any plane two or three times this size would be an almost incredible weapon. As a bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped...