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...blitz scattered British homes but it tidied up British thinking. It gave the British an idea of what they wanted. Last week they hoped that "the most important and dramatic announcement" of World War II would come out of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in Casablanca. When they found no Four-Power Pact had been formed, no evidence of a United Nations grand strategy council, no inspired program of joint political action, Britons wrote off the conference as just another meeting between their good friend Franklin Roosevelt and their old war horse Winston Churchill. A wit cabled that popular response...
...cough drops show that they could go up 100%, but sales are kept down by the sugar shortage. > First-aid equipment sales are up 67.1% (80% bought by women). Coastal States, according to Drug Topics, have bought more than interior States, suggesting that the gauze-buying is a blitz-preparedness move...
...Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...
...Attack! "Insects that attack stored grain and dried fruits were the object of effective blitz attacks by the entomologists, carried out in many cases by men who had to wear gas masks to protect themselves...
...same month that saw Hitler's Low Countries Blitz and the obliteration of the French Republic, the Supreme Court held by an eight-to-one vote that a student whose religious scruples prohibited his saluting the flag could be dismissed from the public schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...