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...Japanese exploitation of the resources of the Malayan Peninsula will probably not be as difficult as some people have predicted," Steiger said. "Their Chinese occupation has been notoriously unsuccessful in the majority of cases, but the Chinese knew they were fighting their own battle and they have continued effective resistance and sabotage after military defeat...
...little corner of made-in-Japan hell on Bataan Peninsula, Douglas MacArthur's American-Filipino Army clung grimly to the last U.S. soil on Luzon. The Jap charged and charged again. He was thrown back. Through the jungles he filtered by squads and smaller groups. Usually he came to an ugly end, but often he did plenty of damage before he died...
Bing Crosby got a telegram from the office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan): "General MacArthur and Brig. Gen. Akin over private circuit have wired us specifically asking for you to broadcast to the men in the Philippines at Bataan Peninsula" -by short wave-"embracing, if possible, in the script that you hope the boys gallantly fighting are listening. . . . You might, if the policy O.K., the sponsor and agency permit, dedicate one of your songs to the soldiers...
...revealed by Ford. But if the process, now in its pilot-plant stage, is economic it will give Ford Motors a return on its investment in its low-grade Lake Superior ore beds. And more than that, it may bring back some prosperity to Upper Michigan, now a desolate peninsula of worked-out copper mines, abandoned iron workings, ravished forests, poor soil...
...they have flat feet, concave chests, or atrophied muscles occasioned by too many hours in Widener. The deplorable physical condition in which many of our supposedly hale and hearty youths find themselves after four years of college will hardly lead to stirring victories in the hills of the Bataan Peninsula or in the sultry jungles of Malaya. It was once hoped that all students would avail themselves of the excellent athletic facilities at Harvard. However, such has usually not been the case, and once Freshmen have passed on to the privileged and indifferent status of upperclassmen, they have assumed...