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...depended on: 1) the amount of U.S. reinforcements that could be brought up; 2) the price the Jap was willing to pay. Three times within ten days, the Navy admitted, the Jap had been able to land reinforcements on his side of bloody Guadalcanal, in spite of heavy losses. An all-out battle for the Solomons looked closer & closer...
...committee will "emphasize proper methods of study rather than mere cramming." Two years ago the student daily hinted at this, calling for instruction in "how to study rather than how to dispense with study." Hitting the college-sponsored Student Tutoring Bureau as well as commercial factories, the "Prince" opened its all-out drive last May 11, and the student council and faculty followed in the course of the summer...
...cards but somehow stays up. Its top scenes are its burlesque-show rehearsals: rusty-voiced Joey Faye and Keenan Wynn (son of Ed) ribbing an old gag routine; Billy Koud as a gaunt, lugubrious director illustrating for the chorines how he wants them to dance; legsome Jean Carter doing an all-out strip tease with an openmouthed rookie drummer way off-beat for her "bumps...
These tough words came last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
...Chiang Kai-Shek can hardly be overawed at the all-out generosity of his allies who have thus far aided the Chinese war effort with a total of but twenty fighter planes. The Generalissimo can hardly feel that the sacrifice of ten millions of people and the devastation of millions of square miles of conquered land can be made worth the pain and loss by the mere promise that China will some day be unified and free...