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...American Export Lines prepared to move some of its 21 India freighters at once into the new route-and perhaps the Germans prepared to sink them en route...
...over the whole tired earth, Adolf Hitler's legions advanced last week on all fronts. They crushed Yugoslavia (see p. 29). They rushed upon the Greeks and British in Macedonia. They regained all of Cyrenaica in Libya (see p. 32}. On the high seas they continued to sink British supply ships at a rate which the British officially admitted now bordered upon 400,000 tons a month-a rate at which the British Isles could hold out not years, but months...
Perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of I Am was the recent Hawaiian incident. Two summers ago members of the sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...
...build another bridge of ships to carry arms and food from the arsenal of democracy to the battle fronts. The scope of that task no man can foresee. Its length and breadth depend upon how much battering the British can still take, how much shipping the Germans can sink, how fast U. S. shipyards can turn out bottoms to re place them. All the Commission is concerned with is to turn out ships, ships and more ships, and turn them out fast. The U. S. Navy is in the midst of a separate, all-out $4,000,000,000 building...
Whereas people with other types of mental disorder try to sink to an infantile level, or to an animal or vegetative level, the semantic dementia cases try to find utter disintegration, nonlife. But, not recognizing their deep urge to self-destruction, they practically never commit forthright suicide...