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...Volunteer fire fighters are on call at all times and the efficiency of the organization was shown two weeks ago when 500 men turned up within 20 minutes at the large fire in Charlestown. Plans for mass evacuations from cities, one of the toughest problems in the defense pattern, and blackouts of large areas present a gigantic task for Dean Landis and his associates...
...Pattern. For this last battle of the maneuvers, Ben Lear gave up the crack Second Armored Division to the Blues, started with a force smaller than he had had in the preceding week. With his reserves based on Shreveport, he flung his advance elements far to the south. He employed all combat bodies, including his Red air force, in widespread reconnaissance, a function in which neither side had shown up too well the week before...
...Hitler had not changed World War II's pattern by invading Russia, the scope of U.S. production as now set up might well have proved ample. The output of tanks, now around 400 a month, is well ahead of the Army's original estimates. Big contractors already in production, besides Chrysler, are American Car & Foundry Co. (light tanks) and Baldwin Locomotive and American Locomotive (mediums). When all are rolling at top speed (e.g., Chrysler, 15 a day) the output (round figure: 20,000 a year) will meet the demands of the Army and Lend-Lease...
...have, however, reached your conclusions with what appears to me to be an inadequate knowledge of the aims of professional education. For example, I doubt if the Harvard Medical School curriculum is "readymade," within the meaning of your term. Its pattern changes too rapidly. Furthermore, there is a closer association between obstetrics and dentistry than you indicate. Obstetrics, unless I am mistaken, is the science and art of pre-natal care and delivery. The teeth discover a proved uterine existence early in embryonic life, a significant circumstance in attempting to control their normal development. We should be concerned as dentists...
Coach Boston, following the pattern used for awarding red jerseys on the Varsity squad, will add to this nucleus of players from time to time until the maximum of 40 is reached. Players who have not been picked and yet show ability thus have another chance to make the regular squad before the first game a week from Saturday with Exeter...