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...into the Bay. The Pacific Fleet, based on Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...
...picture which the Crimson paints inevitably emphasizes the negative aspects of pacifism. However, although they balk at ditch-jumping, the C.O.'s at Harvard are willing to pull their load in the search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes...
...port never did get any important British Lend-Lease shipments to handle. Russian Lend-Lease cargoes were loaded at Boston only for a brief space. Complaining of labor conditions, mismanagement, congestion in the railroad yards, the Russians announced in a huff last January that they were going to pull out. Tall, handsome Richard Parkhurst, chairman of the Boston Port Authority, made mighty efforts, even won important concessions from the longshoremen, carried his pleas to Washington-to no avail. Russian officials took their business to other harbors, began complaining there just as loudly...
...plan was to pull U.S. opera out of the doldrums by getting composers to write operas that are simple and inexpensive to produce, then getting colleges and music schools to produce them. Last year ruddy, twinkling Randall Thompson, 42, was commissioned to compose the first of them. He planned at first to collaborate with Thornton Wilder, but, when that fell through, he turned to his favorite Just So story, found that he could use Kipling's dialogue word for word...
...about 10,000,000 lb. A third of U.S. requirements might be satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...