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...most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
...Liberty ships was canceled, on orders from Washington. Reason: the steel it would take to complete his yard and to build his ships next year is needed for this year's ships and cannon. A. J.'s New Orleans yard, a long-term job still in the pile-driving stage, was too big for the world's biggest steel capacity...
...executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates, but his efficiency made him many a potent New Deal friend...
...ports on the Bay of Bengal-as it did. Stilwell could fight his way out. The R.A.F. could batter the German in Europe, turn back the Jap in the Coral Sea. But if the foe struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile up enough reverses to erase Chiang, either in battle or by treachery, then ruin would be close. The Jap would have nine-tenths of his New Order in Greater East Asia. It might then take years to knock...
...squad saw the Yankee-Red Sox clash Sunday, and then yesterday went over to Baker's Field and took revenge by knocking Columbia from the top of the League pile. Three major position changes were devised by Coach Floyd Stahl with Waldstein starting in left field, Callanan subbing for Delahoyde behind the plate, and Thayer Drake starting his first Varsity game at short for Jay Gleason...