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...days of collecting in the College scrap drive have so far netted a medium amount of material, and much amusement as puzzled inmates of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth delved into the musty interiors of their closets for long-forgotten and discarded junk...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in China's five-year-old war, the Chinese Army made an attack with air support. Fighter planes of General Chennault's 23rd Pursuit Group, carrying medium bombs strapped to their wings, flew over Linchwan, smashed the Jap headquarters, barracks and supply depots as Chinese on the ground launched their attack. Chinese troops cleared out the nearby town of Huwan, fought their way into Linchwan's suburbs. Last week the fight was still going on, while the Sky Dragons harried Jap supply lines and reinforcements...
...picked its mountain troops from among skiers, horsemen, mule-skinners, mountain climbers, trappers, prospectors, guides. Short to medium-sized men, the Army has found, tire less quickly at high altitudes. Fear of high places (acrophobia) is not always a disqualification: many a man who has felt nervous on a stepladder quickly learns a mule's aplomb on precipice edges...
...world in evolution to the whirling of electrons invisible to the human eye. He can produce a mosquito big enough to tower over a village. . . . He can get inside a complex machine, slow down its action, explain its operation to apprentices with a clarity impossible in any other medium...
...Institute, U.S. steel capacity (conservatively rated a good 2½% below all-out capacity) was stepped up 628,350 tons in the first half of 1942 to a colossal 89,198,320-ton total. The increase alone meant enough ingots to build twelve more Victory ships or 1,200 medium tanks every month, and the new total represents 50% of all the world's steel and almost half again as much as the U.S. had at the end of World War I. Moreover, since World War II broke out, the U.S. has added nearly 8,000,000 tons...