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Divide & Conquer. The Axis grand strategy, conceived in Berlin, is, almost certainly, to divide the forces of its foes and then to conquer each sector separately. Allied strength is maintained by sea power, supported by a string of fortresses stretching around the world: Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Alexandria, Singapore, Hawaii, Panama. The reduction of any of these bastions would cut the Allied life line. The reduction of several would be a catastrophe. There were signs this week that the Axis was planning an assault on one or several...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...
...points against Northeastern, may get the ca'l over Don Lutze and Ed Rothschild for the center post although both Lutze and Rothschild may drop back to fill in at guard. Jack Torgan will also see action at guard while George Dillon and Bill Webber are the second string forwards. Art Sully is the eleventh man slated for the trip...
Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
...First-string material from a Freshman swimming group of 46 is finally shaping up for the Yardlings meet with M. I. T. Wednesday, December...