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...originally passed in 1934, expires June 12; Secretary Hull wanted another three-year extension (which might carry into the postwar period). He expected to get it. In 1940 renewal squeaked through the Senate by only five votes. But war had widened the horizon for many a Congressman...
...learning what had been learned in other countries over a three-year period. According to the British Medical Journal, juvenile delinquency has increased by" 50% in Britain, where four-fifths of all venereal infections are from amateurs. In Australia the Medical Journal of Australia cites an even higher percentage (85%) for amateurs...
...infantry, four motorized and four tank divisions, some 6,000 heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year supply of food, hundreds of apartment houses, a mammoth modern library and scores of factories. Outside of Leningrad the Germans demolished the famous Palace of Peterhof, Russian symbol of the best in European...
From an underground concrete shell just outside Chungking "The Voice of China" talks to the world-especially to Japan. Throughout its three-year life The Voice (35-kilowatt station XGOY) has suffered World War II's most persistent, punishing bombing. Once bomb blasts tore down its antennas; thrice its studios have been totally destroyed. Somehow or other, The Voice has managed to keep speaking every...
Besides this staff, Higgins has some plant, some materials and some promises. The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat...