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Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...
This disastrous overcrowding of Widener is not the only reason Boylston should be reopened immediately. Widener fails to maintain the traditionally smooth organization of courses like History 1. Although books are being brought over as they are needed, the History, Government, and Economics department is besieged with the complaints of disappointed book-seekers. And the staff in the larger library is not so patient with the Freshmen as the men in Boylston were. In Boylston the full paraphernalia of assignments, maps and Shepherds were easily accessible. Now even the textbooks have to be dug out from the material of dozens...
...economic tragedy is as deep for their customers as it is for the exporters. To maintain its transportation system Brazil in 1940 imported 1.3 million tons of coal, nine million barrels of oil and gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood...
...when Canadian advance units and English troops come to Dieppe, and when they are able to maintain themselves for nine hours, only to be annihilated completely, then that is an encouraging and most astonishing sign of the inexhaustible victorious strength of the British Empire...