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General McNair would like to cut down the training period for divisions, but has thus far been unable to pull it under one year. Reason: lack of trained officers. He looks enviously at the German system which poured out divisions in six months -largely because the Germans had been preparing skilled wartime officers for many years, and German enlisted men had been through compulsory military training...
...oyster withstood a pull of three pounds (more than a starfish's estimated strength) for 40 hours, did not open until a 22-lb. pull was applied. Another oyster held on against 30 Ib. Several clams stood 25 Ib. before their shells, not their muscles, broke. One oyster withstood a 3-lb. pull for five days before opening one-fiftieth of an inch, for eight days before opening a quarter of an inch (a tight squeeze for even a hungry starfish's stomach...
...their various emergencies, local postmasters are taking many & various steps. In some war-burdened cities like Washington, deliveries in residential areas are being cut to one a day, in business districts to two a day. One of Boston's suburban stations last week got seven horses to pull mail trucks...
...Like U.S. newspaper correspondents in Moscow, Lesueur had to rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
...science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...