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Because of the extra burden on the pool with the addition of the Navy men plus another anticipated load from the Army, the usual April courses in Senior Life Saving and Instruction may have to be postponed, Hal Ulen, swimming coach, announced yesterday...
...arbitrary but respectable figure-would require some 75,000 tons a month of gasoline, bombs and ammunition (figuring 15 offensive missions a month for each plane). Necessary movements from base to base, other administrative flying would require still more. Four-engined transports can carry about ten tons of pay load, but, allowing four tons for crew, equipment and return gasoline, they can carry only about six fighting tons from India to China on each trip. In other words, 1,000 of the biggest transports, each making more than twelve round trips a month, would be required to keep such...
...load on the national economy that a total armed force of 11,100,000 will bring to the U.S., another generally unforeseen burden was added last week. Selective Service's Major General Lewis B. Hershey and Colonel Lewis Sanders hefted it for a Congressional Committee. Their prediction: to maintain itself at top strength, the U.S. will have to draft not 11,100,000, but 12,000,000. Reason: this year, at home and abroad, there will be 900,000 casualties...
...postmen ached more than usual last week. The Book-of-the-Month Club was sending out its March selections: William Saroyan's warmhearted The Human Comedy (TIME, March 1), Berry Fleming's ladylike Colonel Effingham's Raid. Mail carriers have long been used to the load dumped on them by the U.S. Post Office's fourth largest customer,* but last week's was the greatest fardel of them all-342,000 copies of The Human Comedy alone. Crowed The Book-of-the-Month Club: "The largest advance printing of any . . . selection in the history...
...breaking the law, but giving it a neat trim, is a new bicycle express supplying the lush London market. Pedaling between Penzance and London, cyclists leave Cornwall and cycle 120 miles, hand their flower load to another team, which covers the next 120 miles; a third team pumps the remaining 65 miles to London. The cyclists' reported individual earnings: $80 a week...