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...housewives could have pooled their collective opinions it would have added up: 1) a food crisis is rapidly approaching; 2) if nothing effective is done, the crisis will mount steadily to a peak next spring; 3) currently nothing effective is being done about it. The housewife thought it was shameful-and it was. Sober-sided Paul Willis, head of the Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc., said, without exaggeration: "A scandal far greater than the rubber situation looms in the near future. Unless immediate steps are taken to coordinate this country's system of food production and distribution, a major...
...leading Protestant denominations (membership: 23,120,929-about two-thirds of U.S. Protestantism) collected $350,807,172 in fiscal 1942-an increase of 36% from the low of 1934 but a decrease of 30% from the peak year of 1927. Per capita giving has dropped from $23.03 to $15.17 in 18 years-although automobile registration has doubled to 28,804,793, movie box-office intake has doubled to a billion dollars, consumption of soft drinks has risen from $1.28 to $2.71 per capita...
Normalcy in Hollis was the years of Harvard's growth, in resources and prestige. It was the peak of the cycle, the fat years...
Wearing khaki uniforms dyed green, newly arrived crack Australian Imperial troops (including the famed "rats" who holed in for eight months at Tobruk) launched their little offensive last week. At mountain peak No. 3 (of the six between Port Moresby and the gap at the top of the range) they seeped through and outflanked the foremost Jap positions. But the Japs, softened by strafing and bombing raids, had already withdrawn...
...HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The Allies' first big New Guinea offensive has removed immediate threat of Japanses attack upon Port Moresby, last major base north of Australia, observers believed today, and only supply difficulties have slowed it down after 10 days of steady progress. Australian ground forces have reached the peak areas of the Owen Stanley Mountains near the gap leading across trails to the advanced Japanese base at Kokoda...