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Their work is of the utmost importance especially in areas captured from the enemy. By quick tests these Soil Engineers decide whether a field is safe for Flying Fortresses or just pursuit ships, and on them rests the responsibility for a half a million dollar bomber...
...major action was actually in the making, the Japs might well be anxious to create a diversion. In Canberra last week the Australian Government announced that it had "ample evidence" that the Japanese were preparing "a move of the utmost importance." All along the great arc of islands above Australia new concentrations had been sighted. Reconnaissance had spotted new airfields on Timor, 300 miles from Darwin. The increasing tempo of Allied raids directed at Timor and the naval base of Amboina was a measure of Australian nervousness...
...Complete agreement was reached between the leaders of the two countries and their respective staffs upon war plans and enterprises to be undertaken during 1943 against Germany, Italy and Japan with a view to drawing the utmost advantage from the markedly favorable turn of events at the close of 1942. . . . [A] prime object has been to draw as much weight as possible off the Russian armies by engaging the enemy as heavily as possible at the best selected points...
...needle's nearness to the spinal column. Dr. George W. Kosmak of Manhattan, editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said he had no doubt of the method's scientific value, "but it is one of those extremely dangerous things that need the utmost caution...
...peace" could be dictated on Adolf Hitler's doorstep. He still wrote of the "honesty of the intentions which inspired me . .. and which afforded the Nazi Government every opportunity for frank cooperation with me." He still was convinced "that the right policy was to carry conciliation to its utmost point before abandoning hope of agreement...