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...more imminent threat to U.S. drinkers was the Office of Production Management, which pondered an order requiring distilleries to switch to industrial alcohol needed for munitions and plastics (see p. 61). Hopeful note for tipplers: even if all whiskey production were stopped immediately, stocks now aging in warehouses would last four years...
Cold storage, electricity and the automobile had in recent years made life in Singapore so pleasant that many British, both officers and men, had become a little hazy about the threat to their possessions and habits. The officers had fallen into a routine to which they considered themselves entitled: stengahs or gin slings at the Raffles, diversions at two cricket clubs, a swimming club, a yacht club, a golf club, purely social clubs like the exclusive Tanglin, a race course complete with the most modern of totalisators, leisurely perusals of the Straits Times, excursions, for mad dogs and Englishmen, into...
...Once Crimea is again in Russian hands (the naval base of Sevastopol is still under German siege), Soviet planes will be based a scant 100 miles from the German-dominated Rumanian coast, the Soviet Fleet again will be an offensive weapon in the Black Sea, and Germany's threat to the oil of the Caucasus will be weakened...
London was tar black as the war year of 1942 began. The eddying, nearly solid crowd in front of St. Paul's could scarcely see its own faces as it waited for the midnight bells. No threat of an air raid spoiled the holiday, but the spotters, wardens and fire watchers, the steel helmets that the bobbies wore were reminders that London had been bombed, that she will be bombed again...
Despite his holding the University's 220-yard record at 21.3 seconds and having run that distance in 20.7 and the century in 9.7 aided by a wind, Pirnie risked injury by appearing as Dick Harlow's secret running threat on the gridiron this fall. His last minute pass-catching attempt against Cornell was one of the thrill features of the Stadium season...