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Captain Hampton Green's bog-busters chewed switchbacks down a steep hillside of ice-hard dirt in a day and a half, ferried a river, scratched up the other side. Right on their heels, Lieut. Colonel Heath Twichell set his Negro engineers to bridging the tumbling water, singing as they sawed. Wading waist deep in the fast icy stream, they put the bridge across in 36 hours, sang hymns at a Sunday service down by the riverside after the job was done...
Politics-as-usual has invaded the college front. A long and imposing title has served only to trip Purdue President Elliott's committee into the bog of bureaucratic compromise, for the report just presented to the War Manpower Commission only repeats last year's worn generalities with a promise of better things to come. Designed to hurt no feelings, the report is remiss largely in what it omits. Even as a sketchy outline for more specific blueprints, McNutt's ten point program fails to strike at most of the basic evils in the current college muddle...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...
...trucks are essential to the U.S. Some 48,000 communities have no railroad service; most U.S. farm crops are trucked to market; the railroads would bog down if they had to reshoulder the freight load the trucks have taken from them. The trucking industry is only around 20 years old, but its 700,000 common carriers did a business last year of more than $1 billion and, together with the 2,550,000 private and 1,500,000 farm trucks, handled 18% of the nation's freight. The common carrier truckers, moreover, now carry war materials about...
...Small, tough jeeps may be able to negotiate the oxcart tracks and are being commandeered to carry out the wounded, but the majority must walk. Whether they escape depends upon whether Alexander and Stilwell can block off roads to stem the Jap advance, and whether the rains come to bog down Jap motor columns...