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...strategic necessity, said the President, was also "a very tough job." This great necessity was to maintain four lines of communication: 1) the North Atlantic, 2) the South Atlantic, 3) the Indian Ocean, 4) the South Pacific. (For a map of the world's battlefront Routes & Roads, see p. 15.) "A vessel can make a round trip by either route in about four months, or only three round trips in a whole year...
With 1942 revenues up from higher rates on more traffic, the railroads can probably maintain their 1942 net profits at around $500,000,000, on a par with last year. In comparison with any year since 1930, this is profit indeed (see chart, which covers Class I roads). But for the railroads the '30s were a bankruptcy decade; and bankruptcy is no condition in which...
Asked if Australia would be a favorable base for a counter-attack, de Haas said, "Decidely not. Port Darwin is too far from the supply lines that Japan must maintain to keep her forces now in the Dutch Indies supplied...
...these valuable books will be under careful supervision because most of them are irreplaceable. Also, according to Metcalf, great care will be taken to maintain the right temperature, humidity, and light conditions in the new library. Ultra-violet rays and extremes in heat and moisture are particularly harmful to old books and manuscripts...
...Quezon's old friend and secretary, Jorge Vargas, had sold out to the invaders, in return for a job as mayor of Manila, was promptly squelched by Manuel Quezon himself. Said President Quezon: "I appointed [Vargas] Mayor of Greater Manila ... in line with MacArthur's plans ... to maintain order and prevent looting...