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...River Rats are a shabby proletarian confraternity, loosely organized into canoe clubs, whose lives and small earnings are wholly focussed on the floats, canoes, club dances, coving (river talk for necking et seq.} and races. To Ralph they represent that lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence...
Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
...marketable stocks ($1,010,000,000) and bonds ($70,000,000) have been steadily turned into bank balances, the bank balances into payments for munitions. Late last fall it was clear that the British were getting close to the bottom of the barrel (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.). Now spending at the rate of almost $400,000,000 a week, the British will not have enough cash at this year's end to make their 1942 purchasing commitments...
...quiet on the continent of Africa last week. Only important development in the Kenya campaign was the withdrawal of British troops from Buna, at the mouth of the Moyale salient occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
During the next eight years this world-traveling don busied himself mainly with a movement regarded by its enthusiasts as one of the hopes of world order: the propagation of the international language called Basic English (TIME, March 12, 1934, et seq.). A simplified English devised by C. K. Ogden, containing only 850 words but capable of expressing practically any idea, "Basic" made great headway in the middle '30s. Not only did students in many countries find it easy to learn and use, but English and U. S. writers discovered that translating their thoughts into Basic never failed...