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Speakers at the recent "Educational Crisis" conference in Washington, D.C., painted a picture of colleges devoted to Army and Navy officers-to-be, returned by the services, sub-draft Freshmen, and the physically deficient...
From their bases in Australia and Hawaii, from secret spots in the vast expanse of the Pacific, U.S. submarines range up to Hong Kong. The first sub sinking admitted by Japan (last January) was only 75 miles southeast of Yokohama. Some U.S. subs have penetrated Tokyo Bay to gather information on enemy fleet dispositions and to sink Jap merchantmen as they sailed, loaded, out of the harbor. Last month a French flyer who stole a 14-year-old biplane and escaped to Chungking from Indo-China reported that U.S. subs had made it so hot in that area that...
...Stalingrad's best streets stood Apartment 21-A. It had had a corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...
...Said Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov: "When I think of Germans I can't control myself. I shake, my hands itch. I've got to shoot, or throw a grenade, or use a bayonet...
...have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married man earning only$12 a week, no matter how many children he may have, most pay a 5 per cent tax on his entire income with no deductions of any kind. He pays the same per cent on his sub-standard wage as the millionaire does on his income. This is called the "victory tax." More truthfully, it is equality in democratic reverse. The Senate ignored entirely any surtax on luxury spending and the body as a whole once again has declined to levy taxes on State bonds. Large proportions...