Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Important communications held up all right (the equivalent of about three ships' worth of food was destroyed, while 200 with food and munitions arrived), but civilian communications were badly disrupted. Commuters were badly delayed by subways which had been damaged or which lay near unexploded time bombs. Post offices shut down during raids. Let ters took three days to get across London, five to reach the country; and telegrams were almost as bad. Long-distance tele phoning was practically impossible. Euston, Victoria and Waterloo railway sta tions were badly damaged; the Victoria train shed, a massive thing of girder...
...Britain the Indian decision was no real solution to the impasse created when London arbitrarily declared India in the war, offering vague promises of post-war adjustments instead of concrete concessions. For the Indian millions who no longer follow the Saint it was no solution either...
...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...
Then up rose Herbert Hoover, ex-President of the U. S., and proceeded to plunge the gathering again into gloom. Mr. Hoover undertook to picture the post-war world to come. He predicted that dictators would control 60% of the world's people and 40% of its trade, warned that if the U. S. entered the war it, too, would become a dictatorship. He bade the U. S. prepare to do business with the dictators. Said he: "The idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live...
Before the injury, received in Monday's scrimmage, Page was in the thick of the fight for the starting center assignment. The loss of Page forced Coach Harlow to return letterman Burgy Ayres back to the pivot post and meet the challenge of "Lono Star" Dietz. Dietz and Page had been handling the center job so capably that Dick Harlow had decided to give Ayres a thorough tryout at the difficult right tackle hole...