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...Japanese planes and pilots are inferior to ours, but there's no use kidding ourselves that we can take a steady diet of two-to-one numerical superiority in an area where our forces are so small we have practically no margin of expendability. That is our major weakness in New Guinea. Our forces are so limited that we can't risk any but missions which seem to have an ironclad guarantee of high returns and few losses...
...requirements for the U.S., Britain and Canada). This year's initial inventory of crude (443,000 tons) plus this year's expected crude imports (54,000 tons) and synthetic production (254,000 tons) add up to 751,000 tons. That means that the U.S. should have a margin of safety of 142,000 tons-42% more than the rock-bottom minimum working inventory that the military believes essential...
...view of the narrow margin (four votes) by which the House had previously rejected the plan, of the plan's overwhelming popular support and of the universal agreement on the urgent need of a withholding tax, the Ruml plan seemed sure of victory-perhaps total, certainly partial...
...thankless role. But the honors must go to Charles Coburn, whose portraiture of an elderly busybody is convulsingly funny while it ties the picture together. The scene in which McCrea gets his arms around Miss Arthur after five minutes of trying exceeds Hays' Office standards by a wide enough margin to make it interesting...
...backhand pass from George Angle to Nat Brackett, who slipped the ball past the four foot cage guarder, provided the 7 to 6 margin for a Crimson victory over the Springfield lacrosse team Saturday. Half of the Harvard squad, traveling up to Governor Dummer, triumphed over the preps 7 to 5, also on Saturday...