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...months ago in Washington, a squat dynamo of a man, full of strange contradictions and flashing talents, urged increased U.S. production of everything from bacon to bombers. "Bottlenecks, to me," explained Lord Beaverbrook, "used to symbolize pleasure-now they're a pain in the neck." Last week, Max Aitken, once of New Castle, N.B., now Lord Beaverbrook of London, stuck his neck out for new pains. He became Minister of War Production...
...addition to Pennoyer, the only other unexpected casualties are Fred Horter, now in Medical School, and Norman Bacon, so that the task of finding an adequate first boat should not be hard...
...individual events, Don MacKinnon has the best chance of bringing home the bacon. He and Ted Bauer will run the 60-yard high hurdles, and will have some tough competition. But if he has luck on the starts, Don should get into the finals, and possibly place, while Bauer has looked very good in the last week and may surprise. The man to beat in this event, however, will be Walcott of Rice, the world's champion, who holds several indoor records...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
...joined British in convoying, his attacks on transatlantic convoys have also become more costly. The entrance of the U.S. into the war gave him a new field of operations, the Atlantic Coast. There he has another chance, perhaps his last, to prove that U-boats can bring home the bacon...