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...these crucial points: Singapore, at the doorway to the Indian Ocean and the China Sea; Rangoon, where the road forks to India and China; Java's strong points; Australia's port, Darwin.* Even if Singapore falls, if the others are held, the Allies will still have their precious chance to exhaust the Jap to deny him control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
...line. In seven weeks of fighting, starting from his own goal on the Thailand-Malaya border, he had moved 360 miles south through the steaming jungle. His weapons had been end runs, forward passes and quarterback sneaks. Now the time had come for power bucks, because pay dirt-the precious island of Singapore...
First official U.S. raid was on the bulging stocks of Pepsi-Cola, which last week agreed with OPM to release 40,000 tons to New York refiners. But the 3.74? per lb. that Pepsi-Cola will get for its precious stocks will yield it a useful inventory profit (last year's average price: 3.4?)-for Pepsi-Cola, selling a 12-oz. bottle for the same price as Coca-Cola's 6-oz. bottle, has to be doubly careful of the cost of its materials...
Hayes-Bickford is taking steps to protect its supply of the precious white grains from any more raids like the one made recently by a little woman with a brown bag who causally filled her bag with sugar and departed without even saying thank you. They now have posted a sign saying that the sugar is being apportioned at the counter because of the present "Public Hysteria...
...wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time in X-raying and probing. I intend to advise its manufacture in quantity for distribution everywhere...