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Strangest was the business of getting around the country. Eire, badly short of coal and gasoline, runs its railroads with only one mainliner a day. It has as few long-distance busses as the land has snakes. For a six-week campaign, motor-driving candidates were doled out eight gallons of gas apiece...
...Navy is sold. This week the second class (25 WAVES, 15 she-Marines) finishes the six-week course at Atlanta Naval Air Station, comes out with third-class petty officer technician ratings. Soon they will be graduated 75 to a class, will eventually replace 60% of men operators for airports overseas...
...Dartmouth," a daily paper loaded with AP news and comic strips, is Dartmouth's answer to the college newspaper crisis, and announcements of its publication for the six-week intercession call it "the oldest college newspaper--now the greatest...
...naval victory was won last week on the dry, hill-ribbed terrain of southern Tunisia. General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, deputy commander of Allied forces there, pointed out this fact in a press conference. The juncture of the Eighth Army with other Allied forces meant that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops could now be supplied from French North African ports rather than the Middle East. A tremendous amount of merchant and naval shipping, more than all the U-boats sink in many weeks, would therefore be relieved from the six-week trip around Africa...
...retreating Aussies made a stand at Ioribaiwa, Kenney's planes swarmed north. They struck the supply line crawling from Buna. They struck airdromes again & again. Presently the stunned Jap no longer bothered to repair the craters in his strips. During the height of the Guadalcanal action came a six-week period in which no Jap plane dared to take the air. Since Nov. 1 no Jap reinforcements for New Guinea have landed intact. Most of them never landed...