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...that government records had all been chucked into an old sugar sack. The spawning goat population was slowly munching up the island's greenery. Public boats (needed to bring goods ashore, since Pitcairn has no harbor) looked as neglected as unused outhouses. To teach Pitcairn Islanders how to shift for themselves, Commissioner Maude decided on a time-honored British expedient: a constitution of Pitcairn...
...Military Science since the first World War, the central office of the Personnel Relations Department has been moved from Legman Hall where it formerly had its offices. Wartime expansion, which caused the Mill Set Department to move its headquarters to the SAE house was also responsible for this shift...
...Army's inoculation against yellow fever. (To those who jumped to the conclusion that the disease was yellow fever itself, the doctors pointed out that yellow fever is violent, with a 10% to 85% mortality, while the mysterious ailment was relatively mild.) The doctors ordered the Army to shift to a new batch of vaccine...
...preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
...studied geographical theory and principles (as most Americans have not) most lines on a map may look roughly alike. A geographer, however, knows that to shift a line a few miles or to change its course minutely may mean the difference between a fair and an unfair peace, between peace and future war. My map of Europe would meet all the valid arguments advanced by the Axis countries, and thereby deprive them of propaganda weapons, without yielding them anything which would render them materially stronger than they were...