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Chief reason for the move was that new supply and procurement groups are expected to be added to the units of the Army and Navy already studying at the School. The Faculty is now working at peak load, and it was felt impractical to organize and carry through an entire curriculum for the small class expected in February and there-after because of the lowered draft age and the new Manpower-College plan...
Munich's Fifth. The R.A.F.'s higher-load Lancasters and Stirlings bored deeper into Nazi Europe. On a bright night they gave Munich's railway shops, grenade factories and submarine-engine plants the city's fifth R.A.F. raid. Through broken clouds the crews saw great fires. Aloft they met Nazi night fighters "in some strength" but got surprisingly little ack-ack. Lost: twelve British planes...
...acres of banana land under cultivation. Today all but a dozen of the oldest and slowest of these ships have gone to war (some of the best refrigerated ships have ignobly hauled steel ingots across the Atlantic), and the old hulks still in the Caribbean service must load high priority coffee, sugar, cocoa before hoisting one banana into their holds...
When food rationing was about to go into effect I didn't say, "I will out-maneuver them dopes in Washington by loading up on everything!" And I didn't load up on everything...
...Tried nevertheless to carry a wartime load estimated at a billion more pieces of mail than in normal years...