Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one nation has the power to alter these time limits for the Japanese Empire: the United States. Last week a great debate raged in Tokyo. The Navy-and-civilian-dominated Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye wanted to persuade the U.S. to relent and alter the fixed time limits. The Japanese Army, struggling for power in the Government, felt that U.S. policy was inexorably fixed, that Japan must move before the time limits expired...
...fact that OPM is floundering in a sea of statistics does not alter the prospect of shortage. Many a publisher, aware of the notorious excess capacity of newsprint mills, has been lulled into a false sense of security. But under defense pressure mills have begun turning pulp into products which they never dreamed of, even laminating newsprint into special paperboard for shell boxes. Before many months it seems certain that the U.S. press will have to take in its belt...
This problem has been brought up before, but beyond a meagre recommendation by the House committee chairman to alter the present system, nothing has actually been done. The strongest argument against the unlimited meal plan is that certain men who, for one reason or the other, are dissatisfied with their House, will spend practically all their lunch and supper hours in another dining hall in the company of their "more fortunate" friends...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable to get his signature to a faked confession that the act was an attempted assassination with the knowledge of the British Government, the Nazis fling him into the ravine and leave him for dead. He escapes to England...