Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
About 75% of torpedoed seamen have the jitters for a while. Most cure themselves, but many need treatment. Until last autumn, when the War Shipping Administration, aided by the United Seamen's Service, established its homes, many a man sailed again into dangerous waters still suffering from tremor, double vision or sleeplessness. Chronic alcoholics, chronic psychoneurotics are not admitted to the homes. Any other bona fide seaman needing treatment...
...Power. The stirring autumn battles in the Solomons have given the impression that the Japanese Navy has been whittled unmercifully. Indeed, since war's beginning, 104 Jap warships have been claimed sunk, plus 22 probably sunk. Of these perhaps 25 were cruisers and more than 50 were destroyers, whittling the Japs in these vital categories to about 25 and 85 respectively. However, little is known of the Japanese replacement program. U.S. production ought by 1944 to give the U.S. definite naval superiority over Japan; but the fact is that at this moment Japan still enjoys at least equal naval...
Early last autumn the Red Army regained enough strength to try to free Leningrad. Under General Kiryl Meretskov an army crossed the Volkhov River, drove west against the German corridor running to Schlüsselberg, kept going until the corridor was narrowed to nine miles. On Jan. 11 General Meretskov resumed the offensive. Simultaneously another drive struck east out of Leningrad under Major General Leonid A. Govorov. When the two armies met, seven days later, Leningrad was free...
...service doctors for 1943 is a comedown compared with the figures predicted last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9). At that time Dr. Frank H. Lahey of Boston, head of WMC's Procurement and Assignment Service, was faced with Army & Navy demands for about 33,500 more doctors. He called a meeting of the officials involved, emphasized that doctors are not grown by sowing dragons' teeth. The Army & Navy have since announced that they would cut their demand...